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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which writer of antiquity had a "Beauty and the Beast" type story titled, "Amor and Psyche"?
(a) Plautus.
(b) Aurelius.
(c) Aristophanes.
(d) Apuleius.

2. What refers to feminine essence buried in the unconscious of every man in Jungian psychology?
(a) Self.
(b) Id.
(c) Anima.
(d) Animus.

3. Who wrote The Primitive Races of Mankind?
(a) Max Schmidt.
(b) Theodor Benfey.
(c) Ludwig Laister.
(d) Adolf Bastian.

4. What refers to the masculine essence buried in the unconscious of every woman in Jungian psychology?
(a) Id.
(b) Self.
(c) Animus.
(d) Anima.

5. Who contended that fairy tales were of Babylonian origin?
(a) Theodor Benfey.
(b) Alexander Payne.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) E. Stuck.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mythologies and legends differ from fairy tales because they have many what, according to the author?

2. What Finnish folklorist, professor and developer of the geographic-historic method of folklore research tried to find original versions by judging which tales were the best and most complete?

3. What philosopher wrote of stories that old women told their children, called mythoi?

4. What German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic is associated with the periods of Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism?

5. Von Franz believes fairy tales originate as "local ___."

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