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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. According to Von Franz, the barrel in "Prince Ring" is representative of the what?
(a) Heart.
(b) Womb.
(c) Self.
(d) Mind.

2. Von Franz writes of the hero in the Russian version of "The Three Feathers" that he has overreached, and he lacks the subtlety required to harness one's what?
(a) Anima.
(b) Animus.
(c) Shadow.
(d) Self.

3. What refers to a succession of images, sounds or emotions that the mind experiences during sleep?
(a) Dream.
(b) Vision.
(c) Hallucination.
(d) Trance.

4. What does Prince Ring put into the cooking pots of the giants?
(a) Salt.
(b) Sugar.
(c) Poison.
(d) Hemlock.

5. Von Franz writes that many fairy tales involve the hero following what to a secret and fantastic place?
(a) A spider.
(b) A ball.
(c) A snake.
(d) A feather.

Short Answer Questions

1. The disastrous act of the hero in the Russian version of "The Three Feathers" causes the princess to what?

2. What in "The Three Feathers" represents the anima, repressed in the psyche, psychically buried?

3. In number symbolism, odd numbers are what, according to Von Franz?

4. What did the prince see inside the barrel in "Prince Ring"?

5. What happens to the peasant women when trying to jump in "The Three Feathers"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does von Franz write of the witch and the barrel in "Prince Ring"?

2. What happens to the peasant women in the final challenge of "The Three Feathers"? What is the significance?

3. What does the hero do to the frog-skin in the Russian "The Three Feathers"? How does the story end?

4. What is a common symbol in fairy tales, often leading the hero to a secret place? What meaning is held in this?

5. What represents the shadow in the story "Prince Ring"?

6. What does Dummling's response to the toad mean to von Franz in "The Three Feathers"?

7. What does von Franz interpret as the meaning of the ring in "The Three Feathers"?

8. Where are the prince and princess invited in the Russian version of "The Three Feathers"? What happens?

9. Where does Ring travel with Snati-Snati in "Prince Ring"? What challenge do they meet there?

10. What does the burning of the frog-skin represent to von Franz in the Russian "The Three Feathers"?

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