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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who contended that fairy tales were of Babylonian origin?
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Alexander Payne.
(c) Theodor Benfey.
(d) E. Stuck.

2. Carl Jung is often considered the first modern psychologist to state that the human psyche is "by nature" what?
(a) Good.
(b) Religious.
(c) Neurotic.
(d) Happy.

3. What refers to the masculine essence buried in the unconscious of every woman in Jungian psychology?
(a) Anima.
(b) Self.
(c) Animus.
(d) Id.

4. What refers to feminine essence buried in the unconscious of every man in Jungian psychology?
(a) Animus.
(b) Id.
(c) Self.
(d) Anima.

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?
(a) 30.
(b) 20.
(c) 10.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where had Marie-Louise von Franz given the lectures that were the basis of The Interpretation of Fairy Tales?

2. What Finnish folklorist, professor and developer of the geographic-historic method of folklore research tried to find original versions by judging which tales were the best and most complete?

3. Which individual linked fairy tales to "elementary thoughts" and even "national thoughts," notions that might be precursors to Jung?

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

5. In what book was the story "Amor and Psyche" contained?

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