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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the third thing the toad gives to Dummling in "The Three Feathers"?
(a) A carpet.
(b) A baby toad.
(c) A crown.
(d) A ring.

2. What is the second thing the toad gives to Dummling in "The Three Feathers"?
(a) A goblet.
(b) A ring.
(c) A carpet.
(d) A toad.

3. What religion is arose from local saga to mythological status, according to the author in Chapter 2?
(a) Hinduism.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Judaism.
(d) Christianity.

4. According to Von Franz, what figure in a tale represents a restoration of the accord between ego and self?
(a) Antihero.
(b) Hero.
(c) Id.
(d) Super-ego.

5. In Chapter 1, Von Franz writes that fairy tales "are the purest and simplest expression of collective ______ psychic processes."
(a) Aware.
(b) Conscious.
(c) Dreaming.
(d) Unconscious.

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

7. Which individual tried to interestingly link dreams with fairy tales, though he had none of the psychoanalytic or Jungian vocabulary to assist him?
(a) Kaarle Krohn.
(b) Ludwig Laistner.
(c) Theodor Benfey.
(d) E. Stuck.

8. What is the title of Chapter 3?
(a) The Three Feathers.
(b) Theories of Fairy Tales.
(c) A Method of Psychological Interpretation.
(d) Shadow, Anima, and Animus in Fairy Tales.

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

10. What philosopher wrote of stories that old women told their children, called mythoi?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Euripides.
(d) Plato.

11. Who was the king of the gods in Greek mythology?
(a) Apollo.
(b) Horus.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Dionysus.

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

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

14. Carl Jung considered the process of what necessary for a person to become whole?
(a) Separation.
(b) Culmination.
(c) Standardization.
(d) Individuation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the protagonist of "The Three Feathers"?

2. 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?

3. The author asserts that while the myth bears a specifically _____ character, the fairy tale is free from such constraints.

4. 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?

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

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