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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, and Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many "functions of consciousness" are there in Jungian psychology?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

2. 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?
(a) Folklore.
(b) Epic.
(c) Myth.
(d) Religion.

3. Von Franz establishes that the first step in evaluating a fairy tale is to determine its what?
(a) Theme.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Characters.
(d) Setting.

4. Theodor Benfey traced all fairy tales to where?
(a) England.
(b) China.
(c) India.
(d) Africa.

5. What philosopher wrote of stories that old women told their children, called mythoi?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Euripides.
(c) Plato.
(d) Aristotle.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Von Franz' metaphor for myth and fairy tale, what might local sagas or myth be?

2. Which writer of antiquity had a "Beauty and the Beast" type story titled, "Amor and Psyche"?

3. Who developed the hypothesis of the "collective unconscious"?

4. What individual broke the Greek Hercules mythology down and discovered that the myth was made up of a succession of fairy tales?

5. In the Preface of The Interpretation of Fairy Tales, Marie-Louise von Franz writes that this book is based on lectures she gave over how many years ago?

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