Quiz Questions 10/10

*Responsible for the following stories:
- Little Mermaid
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Cinderella
- Hansel and Gretel
- Beauty and the Beast (B & B)
- Sleeping Beauty
- Snow White
- Rapunzel
- East of the Sun, West of the Moon
- Bluebeard
- Juniper Tree

*Questions
1. What is the archetypal lady's name from Finnegan's Wake that we discussed in class?
A: Prank Quean
- Quean is a PORTMANTEAU word = multi-level word
- ex: slithy = combination of slimy and slithering in Humpty Dumpty

2. What numbers are privileged in fairy tales?
A: 3 and 7

3. What is misplaced concreteness?
A: there is no original, these fairy tales did not arise as a result of historical events
- ex: is it true that human hair can carry the weight of a human?

4. Which fairy tale is 333 in the index?
A: Little Red Riding Hood

5. How is the collective unconscious manifested in fairy tales?
A: Archetypes

6. What fairy tale says, "If you're really crafty, you'll get them both"?
A: Little Red Riding Hood, the Wolf

7. What are the 3 parts of the universal quest according to Joseph Campbell?
A: Separation, Initiation, and Return

8. What are the 3 parts of a goddess according to Robert Graves?
A: Maiden, Mother, and Crone

9. Why is there no such thing as an original?
A: All literature is displaced myth

10. What are you recognizing in someone when you bow to them?
A: The Divine

11. Aladdin - "I am not history, I am _________."
A: mythology

12. What are some of the differences in the Grimm and Perrault versions of Cinderella?
A: Cinderella is called Ash-girl in Grimm
Sisters cut off their heels and toes
Birds land on Ash-girl's shoulder and then peck out the eyes of the sisters

13. Which category in the motif-index contains E of Sun, W of Moon, B&B, and Hans my Hedgehog?
A: The Beast Groom or the search for the Missing Husband

14. Which story does NOT have parents struggling to conceive?
A: Bluebeard

15. What is the mother/daughter archetype we always refer to in class?
A: Demeter and Persephone

16. Write a haiku for any fairy tale - 3 lines, 5-7-5 syllables
Deal with images

17. What is the signifigance of the blue in Bluebeard's beard?
A: All of the above (Choose answer D)

18. What causes the transformation in Beauty and the Beast?
A: Love

19. An archetype for the talking animal can be found in which story?
A: Lucius in the Golden Ass

20. Why did Cupid wake when Psyche was looking at him?
A: Drop of oil from the lamp

21. The two "sisty uglers" is an example of what rhetorical device?
A: Spooner-ism

22. Which romantic poet said that we already know everything, we have simply forgotten it?
A: Romantic poet = Wordsworth who displaced this idea from Plato

23. What mythical story did B&B come from?
A: Suggested lineage = Cupid and Psyche

24. Bluebeard's character flaw in the moral refers to which gender?
A: the girl who is too curious - it is her fault for looking in the door, not his for killing his previous wives

25. Which Grimm story has a witch in it?
A: Hansel and Gretel - witches are uncommon in Grimm tales

26. Who wanted to marry Little Red Riding Hood?
A: Dickens

27. What phrase is generally the first clue that you are reading a fairy tale?
A: Once upon a time...

28. In the Celtic version of Cinderella, who/what is the mother?
A: an ewe