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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, pages 114 through 163.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to a head ornament or type of headgear for the highest rank in a socio-political hierarchy?
(a) Amulet.
(b) Sceptre.
(c) Ring.
(d) Crown.

2. What term refers to the "ups and downs" of a story?
(a) Peripeteia.
(b) Logos.
(c) Lysis.
(d) Middle.

3. What happens to Snati-Snati in the end of "Prince Ring"?
(a) He turns into a woman.
(b) He turns into a bird.
(c) He turns into a man.
(d) He vanishes completely.

4. Who included "Prince Ring" in The Yellow Fairy Book?
(a) The Brothers Grimm.
(b) Fritz Anderson.
(c) Aesop.
(d) Andrew Lang.

5. What individual broke the Greek Hercules mythology down and discovered that the myth was made up of a succession of fairy tales?
(a) E. Schywzer.
(b) James Warzenberger.
(c) P. Whillmore.
(d) A. Kohn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Von Franz establishes that the first step in evaluating a fairy tale is to determine its what?

2. What is the title of the primordial waters of the cosmos, the mother from which the cosmos emerged in Egyptian mythology?

3. What is the title of Chapter 7?

4. The author states that there are those that believe in the theory of the "decayed myth," that is, larger myths "decay" and break down over time, fragmenting into episodes that get retained as what?

5. What was on the horns of the animal hunted by the prince in "Prince Ring"?

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