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Which of the following statements about Charles Perrault's "Donkeyskin" is false?
The princess transforms into a donkey to fool her lustful and wicked father.
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For Tatar, many “Cinderella” stories which highlight paternal abuse also…
display a tendency for rendering the mother complicit in this violence.
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In the Grimms' version of "Cinderella," what happens after Cinderella retrieves three bowls of lentils for her stepmother from the ashes?
Her stepmother still does not permit her to go to the ball.
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Which of the following is a difference between the South Carolina version of "Cinderella" and the Grimms'?
There is no mention of a kindly father.
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According to Tatar, psychoanalytical readings of the two major "Cinderella" tale types have often read them as...
enactments of Oedipal desires (love for the father or hatred for the mother).
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What happened to Yeh-hsien's magic fish bones?
They were washed away by the sea.
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Tatar highlights how one particular tale type of the “Cinderella” story has largely failed to take root in the English-speaking world (at least when compared to the numerous iterations of the other primary tale type). Which of these examples most closely aligns with the one Tatar describes as less common in the English-speaking world?
tales that depict a father's erotic pursuit of his daughter
The story "The Three Gowns" differs from the Grimms' "Cinderella" in all of the following ways except...
Rosa doesn't go to a ball like Cinderella does.
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Citing Jane Yolen, Tatar proposes that the clever and resourceful heroine in earlier "Cinderella" folktales has...
often been replaced in newer versions by a more passive, submissive heroine waiting to be rescued.
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For Tatar, the violent fates of Cinderella's stepsisters...
pale in comparison to some even more violent endings to other versions of the story.
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In the tale "The Robber Bridegroom," the young woman is hidden and helped to escape by...
an old woman, held against her will by cannibal robbers.
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Tatar claims that cinematic treatments of "Bluebeard" have often centered...
the wife's paranoia.
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Author Margaret Atwood argues that the Grimms' tales...
are not nearly as repressive as some feminist scholars have argued.
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Tatar relates that all of the following have been identified by folklorists as the three distinctive features of the "Bluebeard" story except...
a forbidden key.
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One difference between "Mast-Truan" and all the other stories in this collection is...
the girl finds multiple rooms filled with former wives in the house.
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According to Tatar, all of the following are examples of "conditions and relationships" the Grimms sought to edit out of their tales except:
female agency
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All of the following are differences between Perrault's "Bluebeard" and the Grimms' "Fichter's Bird" tale except...
In one story, the husband is stabbed to death, and in the other, he is chopped to pieces.
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According to Tatar, lesser known or less-canonical versions of the "Bluebeard" tale tend to...
describe their heroines as courageous and resourceful.
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Tatar describes how the "Bluebeard" tale has traditionally been framed by scholars as a moralizing treatment of...
the consequences of curiosity and disobedience.
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True or False: According to Tatar, in addition to policing the sexual 'improprieties' of their tales, the Grimms also made an explicit point of toning down acts or descriptions of violence.
False
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For Warner, ‘Rapunzel’ is a story which touches on anxieties about all of the following except…
male virility and machismo.
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The final 1857 version of the Grimms' "Rapunzel" tale (the one presented in Zipes' "Forbidden Love") includes which of the following key editorial differences from previous 1812 version published by the Grimms?
Rapunzel asks the witch why she (the witch) is heavier than the prince, rather than why her (Rapunzel's) own clothes are getting tighter.
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According to Warner, a common element in the French and Italian versions of the 'Rapunzel' tale that is absent from the Grimms' version is that the pregnant woman tries to acquire a plant commonly associated in folklore with...
abortion.
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In both "Persinette" and the Grimms' "Rapunzel," the little girl is locked into a tower around the age of...
twelve.
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What plant is stolen from the ogress's garden in the Italian tale "Petrosinella"?
parsley
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In Schulz's "Rapunzel," the little girl is locked in a tower by...
a fairy.
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In the French tale, Persinette gives birth to...
twins.
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One element common to all of the 'Rapunzel' stories collected in "The Power of Love" is...
the color of the girl's hair.
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Which of the following is an additional change to the Grimms' 1857 version of "Rapunzel" absent from their previous version published in 1812?
Rapunzel and the prince get engaged
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True or false: The husband in "Petrosinella" sneaks into an ogress's garden to steal something to sate his pregnant wife's cravings.
False
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Le Guin argues that rather than a sword or spear, the first human tool might have been something like...
a bag.
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What is Darnton's primary critique of psychoanalytical readings of "Little Red Riding Hood"?
They are ahistorical and often revolve around elements which were absent from early versions of the tales.
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What does Benjamin perceive to be the first indicator of the process leading toward the end of storytelling?
the advent of the novel
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For Rowe, Antique stories of weaver-women and the intratextual framing of a collection like 10001 Arabian Nights point to…
female storytelling traditions which were later usurped by male editors, practitioners, and scholars.
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Which of the following statements is incorrect? The word "fairy"...
is etymologically related to the English word "fair."
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Which of the following most closely align with the two archetypes of the storyteller as Benjamin describes them?
the farmer and the seafarer
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For Darnton, one of the greatest losses in the study of recorded folklore is...
the impossibility of knowing how the tale was performed during traditional storytelling.
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How does Benjamin distinguish between "information" and "storytelling"?
All of these answers are valid.
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For Le Guin, unlike a story which needs a hero, a novel simply contains...
people.
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For Warner, Benjamin's models for two traditional storyteller figures ignores a third archetype:
the spinster.
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What "fundamental blessing" does Benjamin describe as vanishing from human society?
our ability to share experiences with one another
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The Ancient Greek word grammata…
All of these answers are correct.
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For Benjamin, the first true storytellers...
told fairytales.
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Rowe argues that Greek culture inherited from Indo-European culture...
a tradition of metaphors linking poetry with weaving or sewing.
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Benjamin argues that the source from which all storytellers draw is...
experiences transmitted by word of mouth.
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In Tatar's collection, one primary difference between "Fulano de Tal and His Children" and the Grimms' "Hansel and Gretel" is...
in one story, the children find their way home twice before they get lost; in the other story, they only find their way home once before getting lost.
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For Bettelheim, the birds' role in the tale of "Hansel and Gretel" is complicated because...
None of these answers are correct.
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At the end of the story, "The Singing Bones," the father decides to never again eat meat because...
he is afraid he will eat his own children again.
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Bettelheim reads Hansel and Gretel's experience of crossing water as...
symbolizing a transition to a higher level of existence.
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A common marker of fairytales for Tatar is that they...
never seem to marvel at the marvelous: supernatural elements are simply accepted.
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For Bettelheim, the gingerbread house in "Hansel and Gretel" represents...
existence based on primitive satisfactions.
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For Bettelheim, what unpleasant "surface level truth" does "Hansel and Gretel" convey?
poverty does not improve one's character
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The daughter in "Fulano de Tal and His Children" uses all of the following to try to find her way home except...
breadcrumbs.
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For Tatar, food and fairytales have a complex relationship, marked by the characterization of themes like...
All of these answers are possible.
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In Zipes' analysis, the transmission of the Rumpelstiltskin story transformed it from a tale of ___________ into one of ___________.
initiation, manipulation
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The two tales, "The Three Spinners" and "The Lazy Spinner," share this story element in common:
Both tales end with the protagonist being assigned less (or no) work.
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One major sociohistorical transformation around spinning in the 19th century was...
industrial spinning transformed into a male-dominated field.
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For Zipes, the function of naming in “Rumpelstiltskin” may fulfill all of the following except…
pointing to the true protagonist of the tale: the unnamed helper.
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According to Zipes, the ATU-index tale-type 500 designation classifies Rumpelstiltskin as a ___________ when he is more like a ___________ and ___________.
helper, blackmailer, oppressor
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Which of the following is an item the protagonist in "Rumpelstiltskin" offers the little man in exchange for his help spinning gold?
a ring
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Which of the following is not an activity named by the protagonist’s ‘cousins’ in “The Three Spinners” as the cause of one of their disfigurements?
spinning
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One significant difference for Zipes’ reading of the transformations between the oral “Rumpenstünzchen” and later published versions of “Rumpelstiltskin” by the Grimms is…
the protagonist of the oral tale did spin flax into gold.
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In Zipes’ reading, “Rumpelstiltskin” is primarily a tale about…
female creativity and persecution.
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In the two tales "Rumpelstiltskin" and "The Three Spinners" the protagonist of the story comes to be locked in a room in a castle with an impossible task of spinning because of...
their parent's lies and boasts.
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According to Marianne Rumpf, one theme shared in common by most spinning-related tales is...
spinning represented as a creative and productive act.
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Which of the following is not one of the names the protagonist guesses when trying to identify Rumpelstiltskin?
Belcher
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