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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. What German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic is associated with the periods of Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism?
(a) Andrew Warner.
(b) Johann Herder.
(c) Alexander Pushkin.
(d) Artur Dinter.

2. Which Egyptian god was associated with the falcon?
(a) Horus.
(b) Osiris.
(c) Ra.
(d) Isis.

3. What German brothers are important in the history of the fairy tale, as they collected, standardized, and then popularized European folk tales?
(a) Aesop.
(b) Grimm.
(c) Morgan.
(d) Bosley.

4. What term refers to an original model of a person, ideal example, or a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated?
(a) Overtype.
(b) Stereotype.
(c) Standard.
(d) Archetype.

5. What term refers to an object or thing which represents something else?
(a) Sceptor.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Symbol.
(d) Image.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the title of Chapter 3?

3. One of the steps in interpreting fairy tales is to establish what among the characters?

4. What philosopher wrote of stories that old women told their children, called mythoi?

5. Which individual tried to interestingly link dreams with fairy tales, though he had none of the psychoanalytic or Jungian vocabulary to assist him?

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