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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapters 8-15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Fairy tales most often deal with what?
(a) Internal conflicts.
(b) External forces.
(c) Maintaining faith.
(d) Magical elements.

2. Who believed that fairy tales led the listener to look for a higher sense of self?
(a) Plato.
(b) Freud.
(c) Jung.
(d) Nietzsche.

3. What poet is referred to regarding the previous statement?
(a) Dixon.
(b) Farley.
(c) Carroll.
(d) MacNiece.

4. Both philosophers believed that myth equaled what?
(a) Cleverness.
(b) Imagination.
(c) Truth.
(d) Wisdom.

5. A child might believe that his life is filled with what?
(a) Strangers.
(b) Enemies.
(c) Chaos.
(d) Rage.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age does this phase begin to fade away?

2. Myths tend to focus on which of the following?

3. It is said that fairy tales manage to give children which of the following?

4. What is the first story referred to by the Brothers Grimm?

5. When faced with ambivalence, a child must learn to understand which emotion is the most:

(see the answer key)

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