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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did Dummling's feather land on in "The Three Feathers"?
(a) A golden ring.
(b) A unicorn.
(c) A toad.
(d) A trap door.

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

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

6. Who was the god of wine, parties and festivals, madness, drunkenness and pleasure in Greek mythology?
(a) Dionysus.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Pan.

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

8. Who is named the king's heir in "The Three Feathers"?
(a) Dummling.
(b) Dingleton.
(c) Ivan.
(d) Fornelius.

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

10. In describing the distinction between myth and fairy tale, Von Franz uses a metaphor of a skeleton to what?
(a) Earth.
(b) Water.
(c) Fire.
(d) Air.

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

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

13. Who contended that fairy tales were of Babylonian origin?
(a) Alexander Payne.
(b) Theodor Benfey.
(c) E. Stuck.
(d) Sigmund Freud.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At the end of the telling of a fairy tale, there is also often a "bringing back to" what, according to von Franz?

3. What German brothers are important in the history of the fairy tale, as they collected, standardized, and then popularized European folk tales?

4. Carl Jung is often considered the first modern psychologist to state that the human psyche is "by nature" what?

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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