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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the villain in the first story?
(a) Stepmother.
(b) Queen.
(c) Wolf.
(d) Witch.

2. What is the negative aspect related to the character(s)?
(a) Being trapped by a giant.
(b) Drowning.
(c) Being eaten by a witch.
(d) Beestings.

3. Fairy tales may help a child to learn about dealing with what kind of treatment?
(a) Excessive.
(b) Medical.
(c) Preferential.
(d) Poor.

4. What phase of a child's development is addressed by the author?
(a) Oedipal.
(b) Puberty.
(c) Adolescence.
(d) Teething.

5. Regardless of the content of the story, what two cultures call all such stories fairy tales?
(a) Swedish and English.
(b) Danish and Norse.
(c) French and African.
(d) English and French.

6. Children would have no need for fairy tales if their dreams were _________________.
(a) Complex.
(b) Realistic.
(c) Understood.
(d) Simple.

7. The monsters or evil people in the stories always finish the story as _________________.
(a) Evil.
(b) Remorseful.
(c) Good.
(d) Reformed.

8. A person with no experience in fairy tales may not understand the difference between which two objects?
(a) Internal and external worlds.
(b) Ego and superego.
(c) Fantasy and reality.
(d) Good and evil.

9. The downside of that personality may equate which of the following to a child?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Rage.
(c) Disappoinment.
(d) Rejection.

10. The separation of good and evil is often portrayed in fairy tales through what type of character?
(a) Benevolent force.
(b) Evil magical creature.
(c) Wicked Stepmother.
(d) Monster.

11. What famous doctor is well known for his studies on that particular character?
(a) Spock.
(b) Jung.
(c) Sartre.
(d) Freud.

12. What is it called when a person looks for the worst in everything?
(a) Optimism.
(b) Pessimism.
(c) Realism.
(d) Cynicism.

13. What story does the little girl relate to her mother?
(a) Snow White.
(b) Sleeping Beauty.
(c) Cinderella.
(d) Little Red Riding Hood.

14. What famous character has been studied by psychologists and psychiatrists?
(a) Big bad wolf.
(b) Sphinx.
(c) Cinderella.
(d) Oedipus.

15. What is it called when a story is told to one generation and then another?
(a) Gossip.
(b) Gatherings.
(c) Storytelling.
(d) Oral tradition.

Short Answer Questions

1. An adult may take a childhood fairy tale and turn it into what?

2. An adult may see the relationship between the wolf and the grandmother as _________________.

3. In the example, where does the child live?

4. The fisherman is called upon to use ______ to get out of a bad situation.

5. Both philosophers believed that myth equaled what?

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