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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What German brothers are important in the history of the fairy tale, as they collected, standardized, and then popularized European folk tales?
(a) Grimm.
(b) Bosley.
(c) Aesop.
(d) Morgan.

3. Who responds the best to stories involving animals, according to the author?
(a) Young children.
(b) Young adults.
(c) Older adults.
(d) Animals.

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

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

6. 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.

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

8. What term refers to a core pattern of emotions, memories, perceptions, and wishes in the personal unconscious organized around a common theme, such as power or status?
(a) Problem.
(b) Addiction.
(c) Persuasion.
(d) Complex.

9. The author asserts in Chapter 2 that archetypal stories originate from individuals who have episodes in which their what bubbles to the surface?
(a) Super-ego.
(b) Id.
(c) Ego.
(d) Unconscious.

10. 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?
(a) Carl Jung.
(b) E. Stuck.
(c) Theodor Benfey.
(d) Kaarle Krohn.

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

12. What is the third thing that the king orders his sons to find in "The Three Feathers"?
(a) A ring.
(b) A beautiful woman.
(c) A carpet.
(d) A goblet.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Is it suggested by the author in Chapter 2 that Jesus was the spiritual successor of which Egyptian god?

3. According to Von Franz's interpretation of "The Three Feathers," the king represents what?

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

5. According to Freudian psychology, what comprises the unorganized part of the personality structure that contains the basic drives?

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