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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Freudian psychology, what comprises that organized part of the personality structure that includes defensive, perceptual, intellectual-cognitive, and executive functions.?
(a) Self.
(b) Id.
(c) Ego.
(d) Super-ego.

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

3. According to Von Franz, when the ego takes over, to the denial of the Self, this leads to what type of behavior?
(a) Neurotic.
(b) Psychotic.
(c) Violent.
(d) Depressive.

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

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

6. 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?
(a) 10.
(b) 20.
(c) 30.
(d) 4.

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

8. According to Freudian psychology, what comprises the unorganized part of the personality structure that contains the basic drives?
(a) Id.
(b) Super-ego.
(c) Self.
(d) Ego.

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

10. According to Freudian psychology, what comprises that organized part of the personality structure that includes the individual's ego ideals, spiritual goals, and the psychic agency that criticizes and prohibits his or her drives, fantasies, feelings, and actions?
(a) Self.
(b) Id.
(c) Super-ego.
(d) Ego.

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

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

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

14. What term is typically used to refer to polytheistic religious traditions, although from a Christian perspective the term can encompass all non-Abrahamic religions?
(a) Nonsecularism.
(b) Neopaganism.
(c) Paganism.
(d) Pluralism.

15. What term means to break down into constituent parts; dissect; dismantle?
(a) Decompose.
(b) Deconstruct.
(c) Upearth.
(d) Construct.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which individual tried to interestingly link dreams with fairy tales, though he had none of the psychoanalytic or Jungian vocabulary to assist him?

2. Mythologies and legends differ from fairy tales because they have many what, according to the author?

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

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

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

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