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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Addiction.
(b) Problem.
(c) Persuasion.
(d) Complex.

3. Who wrote The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales?
(a) Bruno Bettelheim.
(b) Johannes Bobrowski.
(c) Carl Jung.
(d) Wolfgang Borchert.

4. According to Von Franz's interpretation of "The Three Feathers," the king represents what?
(a) The ego.
(b) The animus.
(c) The id.
(d) The Self.

5. 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) Solitarization.
(c) Self visualization.
(d) Culmination.

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

7. 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) Ego.
(b) Super-ego.
(c) Self.
(d) Id.

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

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

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

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

12. What German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic is associated with the periods of Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism?
(a) Andrew Warner.
(b) Johann Herder.
(c) Artur Dinter.
(d) Alexander Pushkin.

13. What term refers to the "ups and downs" of a story?
(a) Lysis.
(b) Peripeteia.
(c) Logos.
(d) Middle.

14. The author states that there are those that believe in the theory of the "decayed myth," that is, larger myths "decay" and break down over time, fragmenting into episodes that get retained as what?
(a) Religion.
(b) Epic.
(c) Folklore.
(d) Myth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the magical toad give to Dummling when they meet in "The Three Feathers"?

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

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

4. Von Franz establishes that the second step in evaluating and interpreting a fairy tale is to determine its what?

5. What term is used to refer to the resolution of a story?

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