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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Children would have no need for fairy tales if their dreams were _________________.
(a) Simple.
(b) Complex.
(c) Realistic.
(d) Understood.

2. Religious parables gave the child a view of all of the following except for which one?
(a) Spirituality.
(b) Tradition.
(c) Morality.
(d) Realism.

3. What is it called when a story is told to one generation and then another?
(a) Storytelling.
(b) Oral tradition.
(c) Gatherings.
(d) Gossip.

4. Who is the villain in the first story?
(a) Witch.
(b) Queen.
(c) Stepmother.
(d) Wolf.

5. One or more of the main characters is related to which food?
(a) Honey.
(b) Gingerbread.
(c) Beans.
(d) Fish.

6. Which part of the mind is not fed by fairy tales?
(a) Ego.
(b) Conscience.
(c) Id.
(d) Superego.

7. When faced with ambivalence, a child must learn to understand which emotion is the most:
(a) Beneficial.
(b) Valuable.
(c) Harmful.
(d) Useful.

8. It is said that fairy tales manage to give children which of the following?
(a) Inferiority complexes.
(b) Sense of belonging.
(c) A skewed view of life.
(d) Sense of humanity.

9. Fairy tales help children to integrate various aspects of _________________.
(a) Family.
(b) Good and evil.
(c) Personality.
(d) Fantasy.

10. What famous doctor is well known for his studies on that particular character?
(a) Sartre.
(b) Spock.
(c) Jung.
(d) Freud.

11. What types of issues are most often addressed in fairy tales?
(a) Religious.
(b) Cultural.
(c) Personal.
(d) Universal.

12. As a general rule, characters in fairy tales tend to be:
(a) Young.
(b) Impulsive.
(c) On a journey.
(d) One-dimensional.

13. The author states that learning how to integrate personalities is ______ to a child.
(a) Essential.
(b) Beneficial.
(c) Important.
(d) Pointless.

14. Fairy tales also teach that one will be rewarded if one does not attempt to avoid what?
(a) Struggle.
(b) Evil.
(c) Goodness.
(d) Peril.

15. Who believed that fairy tales led the listener to look for a higher sense of self?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Jung.
(c) Plato.
(d) Freud.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fairy tale character was the writer's favorite?

2. Myths tend to focus on which of the following?

3. Through fairy tales, children are led to believe that _____ will always come to their aid.

4. Historically speaking, a child's mind was formed by all but which one of the following?

5. At what age does this period begin?

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