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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name given to processes whereby the undifferentiated tends to become individual, or to those processes through which differentiated components become integrated into stable wholes?
(a) Self visualization.
(b) Culmination.
(c) Individuation.
(d) Solitarization.

2. According to Freudian psychology, what comprises the unorganized part of the personality structure that contains the basic drives?
(a) Self.
(b) Super-ego.
(c) Id.
(d) Ego.

3. Who is the protagonist of "The Three Feathers"?
(a) Dummling.
(b) Dumeling.
(c) Ivan.
(d) Dimeling.

4. What does the king first tell his sons to bring him to prove their worth as heir in "The Three Feathers"?
(a) A carpet.
(b) A princess.
(c) A ring.
(d) A goblet.

5. Von Franz establishes that the second step in evaluating and interpreting a fairy tale is to determine its what?
(a) Theme.
(b) Plot.
(c) Characters.
(d) Setting.

6. Von Franz establishes that the first step in evaluating a fairy tale is to determine its what?
(a) Setting.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Theme.
(d) Characters.

7. According to Von Franz, when the ego takes over, to the denial of the Self, this leads to what type of behavior?
(a) Violent.
(b) Psychotic.
(c) Depressive.
(d) Neurotic.

8. Who wrote the work Symbolik des Marchens for which Marie-Louise von Franz contributed interpretation?
(a) Hedwig von Beit.
(b) Bruno Bettelheim.
(c) Carl Jung.
(d) Ernst Federn.

9. 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) 4.
(b) 30.
(c) 20.
(d) 10.

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

11. Is it suggested by the author in Chapter 2 that Jesus was the spiritual successor of which Egyptian god?
(a) Osiris.
(b) Kra.
(c) Ra.
(d) Isis.

12. Von Franz believes fairy tales originate as "local ___."
(a) Religions.
(b) Myths.
(c) Anecdotes.
(d) Sagas.

13. From whom do the brothers buy a carpet in "The Three Feathers"?
(a) A frog.
(b) The queen.
(c) A peasant.
(d) The king.

14. What is the title of Chapter 4?
(a) An Introductory Analysis.
(b) Analyzing and Interpreting Fairy Tales.
(c) A Tale Interpreted: "The Three Feathers."
(d) "The Three Feathers."

15. According to the author, animals in fairy tales are anthropomorphized aspects of what?
(a) Religious imagery.
(b) Ethnic relations.
(c) Human conditions.
(d) Cultural stimulus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term means to break down into constituent parts; dissect; dismantle?

2. Von Franz suggests that one should not be what about a fairy tale interpretation in Chapter 3?

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

4. 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?

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

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