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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What refers to the masculine essence buried in the unconscious of every woman in Jungian psychology?
(a) Animus.
(b) Id.
(c) Anima.
(d) Self.

3. Who wrote The Primitive Races of Mankind?
(a) Adolf Bastian.
(b) Ludwig Laister.
(c) Max Schmidt.
(d) Theodor Benfey.

4. What individual broke the Greek Hercules mythology down and discovered that the myth was made up of a succession of fairy tales?
(a) James Warzenberger.
(b) E. Schywzer.
(c) A. Kohn.
(d) P. Whillmore.

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

6. 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) Culmination.
(b) Self visualization.
(c) Solitarization.
(d) Individuation.

7. What term refers to an object or thing which represents something else?
(a) Sceptor.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Image.
(d) Symbol.

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

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

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

11. Marie-Louise von Franz bases much of her interpretation of psychology and fairy tales on whose theories?
(a) Sigmund Freud's.
(b) Bruno Bettelheim's.
(c) Carl Jung's.
(d) Hilde Domin's.

12. Who developed the hypothesis of the "collective unconscious"?
(a) Carl Jung.
(b) Sigmund Freud.
(c) Aleister Crowley.
(d) James Joyce.

13. Which Egyptian god was associated with the falcon?
(a) Osiris.
(b) Ra.
(c) Isis.
(d) Horus.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Dummling find the magical toad in "The Three Feathers"?

2. Who responds the best to stories involving animals, according to the author?

3. In describing the distinction between myth and fairy tale, Von Franz uses a metaphor of a skeleton to what?

4. What Finnish folklorist, professor and developer of the geographic-historic method of folklore research tried to find original versions by judging which tales were the best and most complete?

5. 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?

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