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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. In Chapter 1, Von Franz writes that fairy tales "are the purest and simplest expression of collective ______ psychic processes."
(a) Aware.
(b) Dreaming.
(c) Conscious.
(d) Unconscious.

2. What is the title of the primordial waters of the cosmos, the mother from which the cosmos emerged in Egyptian mythology?
(a) Mumu.
(b) Ma.
(c) Ra.
(d) Mut.

3. Von Franz establishes that the second step in evaluating and interpreting a fairy tale is to determine its what?
(a) Characters.
(b) Theme.
(c) Setting.
(d) Plot.

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

5. What philosopher wrote of stories that old women told their children, called mythoi?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Euripides.
(d) Plato.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Egyptian god was associated with the falcon?

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

3. Who wrote the work Symbolik des Marchens for which Marie-Louise von Franz contributed interpretation?

4. In what book was the story "Amor and Psyche" contained?

5. What is the second object the king asks his sons to find in "The Three Feathers"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What mention of Egypt is cited in the origins of fairy tales?

2. What does the king do in order to determine his heir in "The Three Feathers"? What happens?

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

4. Who is the character Dummling? What is his character role?

5. What is von Franz's position on psychological interpretation of fairy tales, as discussed in Chapter 1?

6. How does fairy tale differ from myth?

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

8. In describing the history of the fairy tale and its origins in Chapter 1, what ancient writers are discussed?

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

10. When did interest in the fairy tale as an intellectual subject arise? Who associated fables with Christianity?

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