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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Both philosophers believed that myth equaled what?

2. As a general rule, characters in fairy tales tend to be:

3. Which part of the mind is not fed by fairy tales?

4. What famous character has been studied by psychologists and psychiatrists?

5. What phase of a child's development is addressed by the author?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Dr. Sigmund Freud think about the purpose behind the story of Oedpius?

2. Bruno Bettelheim quotes Charles Dickens on fairy tales. What does Dickens say?

3. How does a child view the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood?

4. How does Dickens' statement relate to the conflict of allowing children to experience fairy tales?

5. What is the purpose of being able to divide the stepmother's personality into two separate entities?

6. Why were these things used? What did they teach to children?

7. Why have some parents and educators outlawed fairy tales?

8. What is the general rule of continuity in a fairy tale? Why is it important?

9. Why are fairy tales important to the development of a child's mind?

10. What is the difference between an adult that has no experience with fairy tales and a child who does?

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