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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. What is another word that means the same as kind?
(a) Coddling.
(b) Sympathetic.
(c) Benevolent.
(d) Worrisome.

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

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

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

5. Which two philosophers are referred to in "Fairy Tale Versus Myth?"
(a) Kierkegaard and Sartre.
(b) Aristotle and Plato.
(c) Socrates and Aristotle
(d) Homer and Plato.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Norse refer to as their version of fairy tales?

2. When faced with ambivalence, a child must learn to understand which emotion is the most:

3. The outcome of the story depends fully on what in regards to the character?

4. Myths tend to focus on which of the following?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does a child learn to deal with problems through fairy tales?

2. Fairy tales encourage the belief that there is always something waiting at the end of the story. What is it? Why is it given?

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

4. Explain the difference of fairy tales in various cultures. Are they all considered to be fairy tales?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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