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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the Native American described in Chapter 2 who, deathly ill, had a vision of a great many horses and a dance of the tribe with those horses?
(a) Black Fox.
(b) Red Horse.
(c) Black Hawk.
(d) Black Elk.

2. What term is typically used to refer to polytheistic religious traditions, although from a Christian perspective the term can encompass all non-Abrahamic religions?
(a) Neopaganism.
(b) Pluralism.
(c) Nonsecularism.
(d) Paganism.

3. What term means to break down into constituent parts; dissect; dismantle?
(a) Construct.
(b) Deconstruct.
(c) Decompose.
(d) Upearth.

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

5. What is the second object the king asks his sons to find in "The Three Feathers"?
(a) A goblet.
(b) A carpet.
(c) A ring.
(d) A princess.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales?

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

3. According to Von Franz's interpretation of "The Three Feathers," the king represents what?

4. Is it suggested by the author in Chapter 2 that Jesus was the spiritual successor of which Egyptian god?

5. Fairy tales are referred to as what kind of "system," that is, its meaning is contained in the tale itself, and not elsewhere?

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