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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the work Symbolik des Marchens for which Marie-Louise von Franz contributed interpretation?
(a) Bruno Bettelheim.
(b) Ernst Federn.
(c) Hedwig von Beit.
(d) Carl Jung.

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

3. Marie-Louise von Franz bases much of her interpretation of psychology and fairy tales on whose theories?
(a) Hilde Domin's.
(b) Carl Jung's.
(c) Sigmund Freud's.
(d) Bruno Bettelheim's.

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

5. What term is synonymous with Carl Jung's central psychological archetype, the unified consciousness and unconsciousness?
(a) Id.
(b) Super-ego.
(c) Self.
(d) Ego.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1, Von Franz writes that fairy tales "are the purest and simplest expression of collective ______ psychic processes."

2. 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?

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

4. One Egyptian fairy tale is discussed in Chapter 1 which focuses on two brothers, Anup and who?

5. What refers to the masculine essence buried in the unconscious of every woman in Jungian psychology?

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