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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What do the Germans call their version of fairy tales?
(a) Sage.
(b) Ancient tales.
(c) Murchen.
(d) Myth.

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

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

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

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

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

12. What does the fisherman find in his net?
(a) Copper pot.
(b) Talking fish.
(c) Mermaid.
(d) Nothing.

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 A child may be scared in thinking that his grandmother has been replaced by what?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

14. It is common for very different personalities to be present in what?
(a) Stories.
(b) Siblings.
(c) Main characters.
(d) Villains.

15. Who speaks to the fisherman?
(a) Fish.
(b) Gods.
(c) Jinny.
(d) Mermaid.

Short Answer Questions

1. Historically speaking, a child's mind was formed by all but which one of the following?

2. What is not offered to the fisherman?

3. What is it called when a person looks for the worst in everything?

4. At what age does this period begin?

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

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