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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mythologies and legends differ from fairy tales because they have many what, according to the author?
(a) Cultural overlays.
(b) Character types.
(c) Different outcomes.
(d) Story structures.

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

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

4. What term of analytical psychology, coined by Carl Jung, is proposed to be expressed in humanity and all life forms with nervous systems and describes how the structure of the psyche autonomously organizes experience?
(a) Transcendental reality.
(b) Collective unconscious.
(c) Collective conscious.
(d) Transcendental unconscious.

5. Who is the author of Types of Folk Tales?
(a) Antti Aarne.
(b) Ludwig Laister.
(c) Alexandria Watts.
(d) Adolf Bastian.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to the author, animals in fairy tales are anthropomorphized aspects of what?

4. Carl Jung considered the process of what necessary for a person to become whole?

5. What is the third thing that the king orders his sons to find in "The Three Feathers"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does von Franz write of the significance of the fairy tale in psychological meaning in the Preface and Chapter 1?

2. What debate is established regarding myth and fairy tale in Chapter 2?

3. How does the Jungian system of interpretation differ from other approaches, according to the author?

4. What is the response of the brothers after the ring has been found in "The Three Feathers"?

5. What is von Franz's position regarding the myth versus fairy tale origin? What analogy is made?

6. What are the "functions of consciousness"? How do they apply to interpretation?

7. What does the king represent in "The Three Feathers" according to von Franz?

8. What do the brothers do after their father's challenge has begun in "The Three Feathers"? What does Dummling do?

9. What does von Franz write of Dummling's analysis in "The Three Feathers"?

10. Who were some of the early thinkers who associated fairy tales with psychology?

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