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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A person's dreams are typically formed on what level?
(a) Unconscious.
(b) Fantasy.
(c) Subconscious.
(d) Childhood.

2. During this phase, a child often tends to feel what?
(a) Overwhelmed.
(b) Confused.
(c) Unloved.
(d) Estranged.

3. Who is the first famous writer to be quoted in chapter one?
(a) Dickens.
(b) Andersen.
(c) Mother Goose.
(d) Grimm.

4. An adult may see the relationship between the wolf and the grandmother as _________________.
(a) Impossible.
(b) Implausible.
(c) Foolish.
(d) Atrocious.

5. A child may be scared in thinking that his grandmother has been replaced by what?
(a) Animal.
(b) Talking wolf.
(c) Evil.
(d) Beast.

6. Fairy tales also teach that one will be rewarded if one does not attempt to avoid what?
(a) Struggle.
(b) Goodness.
(c) Peril.
(d) Evil.

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

8. Some parents and teachers have not allowed children access to fairy tales because they are _________________.
(a) Violent and frivolous.
(b) Toxic and harmful.
(c) Confusing regarding values.
(d) Too realistic.

9. At what age do fairy tales begin to have real meaning for a child?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

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

11. It was predicted that Oedipus would kill who?
(a) Brother.
(b) Child.
(c) Queen.
(d) King.

12. Fairy tales tend to start out in what way?
(a) Concrete.
(b) Fanciful.
(c) Abstract.
(d) Realistic.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. A person with no experience in fairy tales may not understand the difference between which two objects?

2. The child learns how to separate what two aspects of the personality?

3. What is another word that means the same as kind?

4. Through fairy tales, children are led to believe that _____ will always come to their aid.

5. A child might believe that his life is filled with what?

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