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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, and Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to an original model of a person, ideal example, or a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated?
(a) Stereotype.
(b) Archetype.
(c) Standard.
(d) Overtype.

2. What German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic is associated with the periods of Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism?
(a) Johann Herder.
(b) Artur Dinter.
(c) Alexander Pushkin.
(d) Andrew Warner.

3. What philosopher wrote of stories that old women told their children, called mythoi?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Plato.
(d) Euripides.

4. The author asserts that while the myth bears a specifically _____ character, the fairy tale is free from such constraints.
(a) Universal.
(b) National.
(c) Ethnic.
(d) Cultural.

5. One Egyptian fairy tale is discussed in Chapter 1 which focuses on two brothers, Anup and who?
(a) Musa.
(b) Bata.
(c) Biti.
(d) Mata.

Short Answer Questions

1. What religion is arose from local saga to mythological status, according to the author in Chapter 2?

2. Is it suggested by the author in Chapter 2 that Jesus was the spiritual successor of which Egyptian god?

3. What term refers to the "ups and downs" of a story?

4. What refers to the masculine essence buried in the unconscious of every woman in Jungian psychology?

5. Who wrote The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales?

(see the answer key)

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