Deck 38: Germany: Grimms Household Tales

Question 1

The emphasis of German _______________ on older fundamental values such as charity and naturalness is evident in the Grimm brothers' tales.

A) Classicism
B) Naturalism
C) Romanticism
D) Modernism

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Participants in the French __________________ provided a major influence on writing, rationalizing, and collecting fairy tales in the seventeenth century.

A) church
B) countryside
C) court
D) salons

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The tales reworked by Charles Perrault and others enter the realm of _________________ because they reflect the values of the audience and because retellings spread the message of these values.

A) history
B) literature
C) myth
D) anthropology

Answer 3

C

Question 4

According to Otto Rank's concept of the ____________________, a child is dissatisfied with its parents and wants to get rid of them.

A) family romance
B) idée fixe
C) rite of passage
D) Oedipus complex

Question 5

Victor Turner considers "The Goose Girl" the story of a(n) _________________ because it focuses on the path of trials leading to a new status in society.

A) family romance
B) idée fixe
C) rite of passage
D) Oedipus complex

Question 6

The Goose Girl tells her tale of woe to _______________.

A) the king
B) Conrad
C) her servant
D) the oven

Question 7

In "The Raven," the princess's words to the man, "Go deeper into the wood," function as a(n) ___________________.

A) interdiction
B) wish
C) trick
D) punishment

Question 8

In "The Raven" the giant fulfills the Proppian function of ________________.

A) donor
B) magical person
C) helper
D) trickster

Question 9

When Faithful John violates the king's orders by showing the prince the picture of the Princess of the Golden Palace, the result is a Proppian _______________.

A) trickery
B) harm
C) counteraction
D) mediation

Question 10

The prince saves Faithful John by __________________.

A) sacrificing his children
B) deceiving his wife
C) praying for a miracle
D) killing the three ravens

Question 11

In "Faithful John," the title character becomes ________________________ because _______________________________________________.

Question 12

In "The Goose Girl," ________________________ hears the title character telling the truth about her situation.

Question 13

An example of treachery in "The Goose Girl": ____________________________.

Question 14

The interdiction of the king to Faithful John is: "You must not show _________________ the last chamber in the long gallery."

Question 15

The raven in the Grimms' story of the same name is actually ___________.

Question 16

Falada, in horse in "The Goose Girl," is magical because he can ___________________.

Question 17

In "The Raven," the magical agents that allow the man to rescue the princess are a _________________, a ___________________, and a ___________________.

Question 18

In "Faithful John," the prince wins the princess with the help of __________________.

Question 19

Because Faithful John provides the prince with a plan for winning the princess, he is a __________________ in the Proppian sense.

Question 20

Faithful John knows the price he will have to pay to save the prince because he can understand _____________________.