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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One of the steps in interpreting fairy tales is to establish what among the characters?
(a) Bonds.
(b) Groupings.
(c) Conflicts.
(d) Relationships.

2. What term is synonymous with Carl Jung's central psychological archetype, the unified consciousness and unconsciousness?
(a) Super-ego.
(b) Ego.
(c) Self.
(d) Id.

3. Where does Dummling's feather fly to in "The Three Feathers"?
(a) The floor.
(b) North.
(c) East.
(d) West.

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

5. 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) Neurotic.
(c) Depressive.
(d) Psychotic.

6. The Jungian "Self" relates most to which Freudian concept?
(a) Animus.
(b) Ego.
(c) Super-ego.
(d) Id.

7. In what book was the story "Amor and Psyche" contained?
(a) The Golden Ring.
(b) The Silver Horn.
(c) The Yellow Grass.
(d) The Golden Ass.

8. The author states that there are those that believe in the theory of the "decayed myth," that is, larger myths "decay" and break down over time, fragmenting into episodes that get retained as what?
(a) Religion.
(b) Epic.
(c) Myth.
(d) Folklore.

9. 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 Hawk.
(b) Black Elk.
(c) Red Horse.
(d) Black Fox.

10. What term refers to the "ups and downs" of a story?
(a) Logos.
(b) Peripeteia.
(c) Lysis.
(d) Middle.

11. What is the title of the primordial waters of the cosmos, the mother from which the cosmos emerged in Egyptian mythology?
(a) Ra.
(b) Ma.
(c) Mut.
(d) Mumu.

12. Mythologies and legends differ from fairy tales because they have many what, according to the author?
(a) Character types.
(b) Cultural overlays.
(c) Story structures.
(d) Different outcomes.

13. Which individual linked fairy tales to "elementary thoughts" and even "national thoughts," notions that might be precursors to Jung?
(a) Adolf Bastian.
(b) Theodor Benfey.
(c) Kaarle Krohn.
(d) Ludwig Laister.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Marie-Louise von Franz bases much of her interpretation of psychology and fairy tales on whose theories?

2. What refers to feminine essence buried in the unconscious of every man in Jungian psychology?

3. Von Franz establishes that the second step in evaluating and interpreting a fairy tale is to determine its what?

4. Who is the author of Types of Folk Tales?

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

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