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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. It is suggested by the author that Jesus was the spiritual successor to which Greek god?
(a) Ares.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Dionysus.
(d) Zeus.

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

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

4. What term is synonymous with Carl Jung's central psychological archetype, the unified consciousness and unconsciousness?
(a) Ego.
(b) Super-ego.
(c) Self.
(d) Id.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Who wrote The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales?

4. What term refers to an original model of a person, ideal example, or a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the second challenge issued by the king in "The Three Feathers"?

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

4. What suggestion is made regarding Christianity and myth in Chapter 2?

5. What impact did the Brothers Grimm have on interest in the fairy tale? What efforts were made to trace fairy tale origins?

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

7. Who founded the Finnish School and what associations did it have with fairy tales?

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

9. How does fairy tale differ from myth?

10. What are the first steps in interpreting a fairy tale?

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