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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 does Von Franz equates to the timelessness/spacelessness of the unconscious in fairy tales?
(a) The hero.
(b) The animus.
(c) Once upon a time.
(d) The theme.

2. In describing the distinction between myth and fairy tale, Von Franz uses a metaphor of a skeleton to what?
(a) Air.
(b) Water.
(c) Fire.
(d) Earth.

3. What term is used to refer to the resolution of a story?
(a) Exposition.
(b) Peripeteia.
(c) Lysis.
(d) Conclos.

4. What term is synonymous with Carl Jung's central psychological archetype, the unified consciousness and unconsciousness?
(a) Ego.
(b) Id.
(c) Super-ego.
(d) Self.

5. What is the name of the Native American described in Chapter 2 who, deathly ill, had a vision of a great many horses and a dance of the tribe with those horses?
(a) Red Horse.
(b) Black Fox.
(c) Black Hawk.
(d) Black Elk.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What term refers to an original model of a person, ideal example, or a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated?

3. What term refers to a core pattern of emotions, memories, perceptions, and wishes in the personal unconscious organized around a common theme, such as power or status?

4. In Von Franz' metaphor for myth and fairy tale, what might local sagas or myth be?

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

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