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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. Carl Jung is often considered the first modern psychologist to state that the human psyche is "by nature" what?
(a) Religious.
(b) Good.
(c) Neurotic.
(d) Happy.

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

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

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) 4.
(c) 20.
(d) 30.

7. What does the magical toad give to Dummling when they meet in "The Three Feathers"?
(a) A carpet.
(b) A goblet.
(c) A princess.
(d) A ring.

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

9. 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) Epic.
(b) Myth.
(c) Religion.
(d) Folklore.

10. How many sons does the king have in "The Three Feathers"?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

11. What does Von Franz equates to the timelessness/spacelessness of the unconscious in fairy tales?
(a) The theme.
(b) The hero.
(c) Once upon a time.
(d) The animus.

12. What individual broke the Greek Hercules mythology down and discovered that the myth was made up of a succession of fairy tales?
(a) James Warzenberger.
(b) A. Kohn.
(c) P. Whillmore.
(d) E. Schywzer.

13. 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) Ego.
(c) Id.
(d) Super-ego.

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) Neopaganism.
(b) Nonsecularism.
(c) Pluralism.
(d) Paganism.

15. How many "functions of consciousness" are there in Jungian psychology?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What religion is arose from local saga to mythological status, according to the author in Chapter 2?

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

4. Which Egyptian god was associated with the falcon?

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

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