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

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

3. Who was the king of the gods in Greek mythology?
(a) Apollo.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Horus.
(d) Dionysus.

4. In describing the distinction between myth and fairy tale, Von Franz uses a metaphor of a skeleton to what?
(a) Fire.
(b) Air.
(c) Earth.
(d) Water.

5. In Von Franz' metaphor for myth and fairy tale, what might local sagas or myth be?
(a) Flesh.
(b) Earth.
(c) Sand.
(d) Water.

Short Answer Questions

1. Theodor Benfey traced all fairy tales to where?

2. The author asserts that while the myth bears a specifically _____ character, the fairy tale is free from such constraints.

3. What does Von Franz equates to the timelessness/spacelessness of the unconscious in fairy tales?

4. What term is typically used to refer to polytheistic religious traditions, although from a Christian perspective the term can encompass all non-Abrahamic religions?

5. Who was the god of wine, parties and festivals, madness, drunkenness and pleasure in Greek mythology?

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