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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Paganism.
(c) Nonsecularism.
(d) Pluralism.

2. It is suggested by the author that Jesus was the spiritual successor to which Greek god?
(a) Apollo.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Ares.
(d) Dionysus.

3. What German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic is associated with the periods of Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism?
(a) Artur Dinter.
(b) Alexander Pushkin.
(c) Johann Herder.
(d) Andrew Warner.

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

5. Where had Marie-Louise von Franz given the lectures that were the basis of The Interpretation of Fairy Tales?
(a) Sigmung Freud Institute.
(b) Zurich Psychological Institute.
(c) Newark Psychological Institute.
(d) C.G. Jung Instistute.

6. Who is the author of Types of Folk Tales?
(a) Antti Aarne.
(b) Alexandria Watts.
(c) Adolf Bastian.
(d) Ludwig Laister.

7. One Egyptian fairy tale is discussed in Chapter 1 which focuses on two brothers, Anup and who?
(a) Bata.
(b) Musa.
(c) Mata.
(d) Biti.

8. Where does Dummling find the magical toad in "The Three Feathers"?
(a) In a witch's house.
(b) In an enchanted forest.
(c) Behind the secret door.
(d) In the attic.

9. What term is used to refer to the resolution of a story?
(a) Exposition.
(b) Peripeteia.
(c) Conclos.
(d) Lysis.

10. Which writer of antiquity had a "Beauty and the Beast" type story titled, "Amor and Psyche"?
(a) Apuleius.
(b) Aurelius.
(c) Plautus.
(d) Aristophanes.

11. Carl Jung considered the process of what necessary for a person to become whole?
(a) Standardization.
(b) Individuation.
(c) Separation.
(d) Culmination.

12. What does the magical toad give to Dummling when they meet in "The Three Feathers"?
(a) A goblet.
(b) A princess.
(c) A ring.
(d) A carpet.

13. 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) 10.
(b) 20.
(c) 4.
(d) 30.

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

15. Fairy tales are referred to as what kind of "system," that is, its meaning is contained in the tale itself, and not elsewhere?
(a) Inspired.
(b) Closed.
(c) Open.
(d) Constrained.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Theodor Benfey traced all fairy tales to where?

3. 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?

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

5. Where does Dummling's feather fly to in "The Three Feathers"?

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