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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The outcome of the story depends fully on what in regards to the character?
(a) Cunning.
(b) Determination.
(c) Faith.
(d) Success.

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

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

4. Which part of the mind is not fed by fairy tales?
(a) Conscience.
(b) Superego.
(c) Ego.
(d) Id.

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

6. As a general rule, characters in fairy tales tend to be:
(a) Young.
(b) One-dimensional.
(c) Impulsive.
(d) On a journey.

7. The child must resign the story so s/he can go where?
(a) School.
(b) Church.
(c) Dinner.
(d) Bed.

8. Many modern fairy tales have lost their impact and meaning because they have been _________________.
(a) Changed.
(b) Simplified.
(c) Reinvented.
(d) Translated.

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

10. When faced with ambivalence, a child must learn to understand which emotion is the most:
(a) Useful.
(b) Harmful.
(c) Valuable.
(d) Beneficial.

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

12. The fisherman is called upon to use ______ to get out of a bad situation.
(a) Faith.
(b) Brains.
(c) Wit.
(d) Strength.

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

14. These stories will often force the child to face what kind of crises?
(a) Psychological.
(b) Faith-based.
(c) Gender-based.
(d) Developmental.

15. What is not offered to the fisherman?
(a) Safe way home.
(b) Gold.
(c) Three wishes.
(d) A new boat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fairy tales tend to start out in what way?

2. Both philosophers believed that myth equaled what?

3. What story does the little girl relate to her mother?

4. Children would have no need for fairy tales if their dreams were _________________.

5. Who speaks to the fisherman?

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