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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. Fairy tales help children to learn how to develop which of the following?
(a) Phobias.
(b) Imagination.
(c) Storytelling skills.
(d) Solutions.

2. What do the Germans call their version of myths?
(a) Sage.
(b) Fables.
(c) Murchen.
(d) Parables.

3. Religious parables gave the child a view of all of the following except for which one?
(a) Spirituality.
(b) Realism.
(c) Morality.
(d) Tradition.

4. At what age does this period begin?
(a) 12.
(b) 6.
(c) 3.
(d) 8.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Fairy tales also teach that one will be rewarded if one does not attempt to avoid what?

2. Who is the villain in the first story?

3. A child may be scared in thinking that his grandmother has been replaced by what?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Louis MacNeice and what does he say about fairy tales?

2. What type of character is often seen as the representation of good versus evil?

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

4. How is a supreme being or other force worked into fairy tales?

5. What story does Bettelheim refer to regarding the introduction of duality?

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

7. What are the two developmental crises referred to by the author?

8. What example is used regarding the differentiation between fantasy and reality?

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

10. What use do fairy tales have in the life of a child?

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