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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 1, Von Franz writes that fairy tales "are the purest and simplest expression of collective ______ psychic processes."
(a) Aware.
(b) Conscious.
(c) Unconscious.
(d) Dreaming.

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

3. The author asserts that while the myth bears a specifically _____ character, the fairy tale is free from such constraints.
(a) Ethnic.
(b) Universal.
(c) National.
(d) Cultural.

4. According to Von Franz, what figure in a tale represents a restoration of the accord between ego and self?
(a) Super-ego.
(b) Hero.
(c) Id.
(d) Antihero.

5. At the end of the telling of a fairy tale, there is also often a "bringing back to" what, according to von Franz?
(a) The beginning.
(b) Id.
(c) Self.
(d) Reality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the primordial waters of the cosmos, the mother from which the cosmos emerged in Egyptian mythology?

2. Who is named the king's heir in "The Three Feathers"?

3. What is the third thing the toad gives to Dummling in "The Three Feathers"?

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

5. According to Freudian psychology, what comprises that organized part of the personality structure that includes the individual's ego ideals, spiritual goals, and the psychic agency that criticizes and prohibits his or her drives, fantasies, feelings, and actions?

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