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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who responds the best to stories involving animals, according to the author?
(a) Older adults.
(b) Animals.
(c) Young adults.
(d) Young children.

2. Fairy tales are referred to as what kind of "system," that is, its meaning is contained in the tale itself, and not elsewhere?
(a) Constrained.
(b) Open.
(c) Inspired.
(d) Closed.

3. What is the third thing that the king orders his sons to find in "The Three Feathers"?
(a) A ring.
(b) A carpet.
(c) A beautiful woman.
(d) A goblet.

4. Who wrote The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales?
(a) Wolfgang Borchert.
(b) Johannes Bobrowski.
(c) Carl Jung.
(d) Bruno Bettelheim.

5. One of the steps in interpreting fairy tales is to establish what among the characters?
(a) Relationships.
(b) Groupings.
(c) Conflicts.
(d) Bonds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 4?

2. What is the third thing the toad gives to Dummling in "The Three Feathers"?

3. Marie-Louise von Franz bases much of her interpretation of psychology and fairy tales on whose theories?

4. 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?

5. What is the title of the primordial waters of the cosmos, the mother from which the cosmos emerged in Egyptian mythology?

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