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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a group of systems, traditions, and beliefs which hold that the relative positions of celestial bodies and related details can provide information about personality, human affairs, and other matters?

2. All fairy tales have what kind of structure?

3. What does the princess appear to be when she exits the cellar in "The Three Feathers"?

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

5. Von Franz determines that the Golden Hind is a symbol for what in "Prince Ring"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the toad representative of in "The Three Feathers," according to von Franz?

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

3. What does the number three represent, according to von Franz?

4. What is von Franz's interpretation of Dummling's descent into the trap door in "The Three Feathers"?

5. What does Rauder do once Ring succeeds at his mission in "Prince Ring"? How does the story end?

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

7. Why does von Franz explain the princess is locked in the cellar in "The Three Feathers"?

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

9. What does von Franz write of the princess' display at the castle in the Russian "The Three Feathers"?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the role that spirituality plays in Jungian psychology. How does Jung differ from Freud in examining the role of religion or spirituality in the psyche? How does Jungian analysis serve literature differently in this regard?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the role of the "female shadow" in the story "Shaggy Top." What symbolism is used in this story? How does it support the role of the shadow?

Essay Topic 3

Describe how the hero figure in a tale is a figure that represents a restoration of the accord between ego and self, according to von Franz's theory. What steps must the hero take to restore balance?

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