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

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

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

4. What individual broke the Greek Hercules mythology down and discovered that the myth was made up of a succession of fairy tales?
(a) E. Schywzer.
(b) A. Kohn.
(c) James Warzenberger.
(d) P. Whillmore.

5. What is the title of Chapter 3?
(a) The Three Feathers.
(b) A Method of Psychological Interpretation.
(c) Theories of Fairy Tales.
(d) Shadow, Anima, and Animus in Fairy Tales.

Short Answer Questions

1. Theodor Benfey traced all fairy tales to where?

2. What term of analytical psychology, coined by Carl Jung, is proposed to be expressed in humanity and all life forms with nervous systems and describes how the structure of the psyche autonomously organizes experience?

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

4. In describing the distinction between myth and fairy tale, Von Franz uses a metaphor of a skeleton to what?

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

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