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

2. One of the steps in interpreting fairy tales is to establish what among the characters?
(a) Bonds.
(b) Conflicts.
(c) Relationships.
(d) Groupings.

3. Marie-Louise von Franz bases much of her interpretation of psychology and fairy tales on whose theories?
(a) Carl Jung's.
(b) Bruno Bettelheim's.
(c) Sigmund Freud's.
(d) Hilde Domin's.

4. According to Von Franz's analysis of "The Three Feathers," by using feathers to decide the kingdom's fate, the king is leaving matters to what?
(a) God.
(b) A frog.
(c) The birds.
(d) His sons.

5. Which individual tried to interestingly link dreams with fairy tales, though he had none of the psychoanalytic or Jungian vocabulary to assist him?
(a) Kaarle Krohn.
(b) E. Stuck.
(c) Theodor Benfey.
(d) Ludwig Laistner.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Freudian psychology, what comprises that organized part of the personality structure that includes defensive, perceptual, intellectual-cognitive, and executive functions.?

2. According to Von Franz's interpretation of "The Three Feathers," the king represents what?

3. Which individual linked fairy tales to "elementary thoughts" and even "national thoughts," notions that might be precursors to Jung?

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

5. Theodor Benfey traced all fairy tales to where?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the opposing position regarding the Christianity/myth theory?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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