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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. 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 conscious.
(c) Collective unconscious.
(d) Transcendental unconscious.

2. Who is named the king's heir in "The Three Feathers"?
(a) Dummling.
(b) Fornelius.
(c) Ivan.
(d) Dingleton.

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

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

5. Who wrote The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales?
(a) Bruno Bettelheim.
(b) Johannes Bobrowski.
(c) Wolfgang Borchert.
(d) Carl Jung.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who wrote The Primitive Races of Mankind?

3. Von Franz establishes that the second step in evaluating and interpreting a fairy tale is to determine its what?

4. How many sons does the king have in "The Three Feathers"?

5. What philosopher wrote of stories that old women told their children, called mythoi?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the theory of the "decayed myth"?

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

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

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

5. What does von Franz remark of fairy tales involving animals in Chapter 2?

6. How do archetypal stories arise, according to the author?

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

8. How does fairy tale differ from myth?

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

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

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