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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The monsters or evil people in the stories always finish the story as _________________.
(a) Good.
(b) Reformed.
(c) Evil.
(d) Remorseful.

2. What is another word that means the same as kind?
(a) Benevolent.
(b) Sympathetic.
(c) Worrisome.
(d) Coddling.

3. What is not offered to the fisherman?
(a) A new boat.
(b) Gold.
(c) Three wishes.
(d) Safe way home.

4. What phase of a child's development is addressed by the author?
(a) Adolescence.
(b) Oedipal.
(c) Teething.
(d) Puberty.

5. A child may be scared in thinking that his grandmother has been replaced by what?
(a) Animal.
(b) Talking wolf.
(c) Beast.
(d) Evil.

6. Who is the first famous writer to be quoted in chapter one?
(a) Dickens.
(b) Mother Goose.
(c) Grimm.
(d) Andersen.

7. Many modern fairy tales have lost their impact and meaning because they have been _________________.
(a) Changed.
(b) Reinvented.
(c) Simplified.
(d) Translated.

8. Some parents and teachers have not allowed children access to fairy tales because they are _________________.
(a) Toxic and harmful.
(b) Violent and frivolous.
(c) Confusing regarding values.
(d) Too realistic.

9. It is common for very different personalities to be present in what?
(a) Villains.
(b) Siblings.
(c) Main characters.
(d) Stories.

10. Which two philosophers are referred to in "Fairy Tale Versus Myth?"
(a) Aristotle and Plato.
(b) Homer and Plato.
(c) Kierkegaard and Sartre.
(d) Socrates and Aristotle

11. A child might believe that his life is filled with what?
(a) Enemies.
(b) Rage.
(c) Strangers.
(d) Chaos.

12. Fairy tales help children to learn how to develop which of the following?
(a) Solutions.
(b) Phobias.
(c) Storytelling skills.
(d) Imagination.

13. The downside of that personality may equate which of the following to a child?
(a) Disappoinment.
(b) Rejection.
(c) Guilt.
(d) Rage.

14. It was predicted that Oedipus would kill who?
(a) Brother.
(b) King.
(c) Queen.
(d) Child.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The child learns how to separate what two aspects of the personality?

2. At what age does this period begin?

3. It is said that fairy tales manage to give children which of the following?

4. An adult may see the relationship between the wolf and the grandmother as _________________.

5. Fairy tales are often thought to provide what to a child?

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