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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One Egyptian fairy tale is discussed in Chapter 1 which focuses on two brothers, Anup and who?
(a) Biti.
(b) Mata.
(c) Bata.
(d) Musa.

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

3. What is the title of Chapter 4?
(a) A Tale Interpreted: "The Three Feathers."
(b) Analyzing and Interpreting Fairy Tales.
(c) "The Three Feathers."
(d) An Introductory Analysis.

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

5. According to Von Franz's analysis of "The Three Feathers," by using feathers to decide the kingdom's fate, the king is leaving matters to what?
(a) God.
(b) The birds.
(c) His sons.
(d) A frog.

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

7. Fairy tales are referred to as what kind of "system," that is, its meaning is contained in the tale itself, and not elsewhere?
(a) Closed.
(b) Inspired.
(c) Constrained.
(d) Open.

8. In Von Franz' metaphor for myth and fairy tale, what might local sagas or myth be?
(a) Flesh.
(b) Sand.
(c) Earth.
(d) Water.

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

10. The author asserts that while the myth bears a specifically _____ character, the fairy tale is free from such constraints.
(a) Universal.
(b) National.
(c) Ethnic.
(d) Cultural.

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

12. What term refers to an original model of a person, ideal example, or a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated?
(a) Stereotype.
(b) Archetype.
(c) Standard.
(d) Overtype.

13. Where does Dummling's feather fly to in "The Three Feathers"?
(a) North.
(b) East.
(c) The floor.
(d) West.

14. One of the steps in interpreting fairy tales is to establish what among the characters?
(a) Groupings.
(b) Relationships.
(c) Conflicts.
(d) Bonds.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Jungian "Self" relates most to which Freudian concept?

2. What term is typically used to refer to polytheistic religious traditions, although from a Christian perspective the term can encompass all non-Abrahamic religions?

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

4. Von Franz believes fairy tales originate as "local ___."

5. According to Von Franz, when the ego takes over, to the denial of the Self, this leads to what type of behavior?

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