Test Time!

Test Questions made from the class:

• Portmanteau = a multilevel word used in Finnegan's Wake ex: Prank Quean, another example is from Alice and Wonderland ex: slithy, which is a combination of sly and slimey
• privilaged #s in fairytales 3 & 7
• What is misplaced concreteness? ex: Rapunzel's hair and whether or not it can really hold up a human, which according to what Erin found and put in her blog, the answer is yes
• Which fairytale is type 333 according to Arny Thompson's classification? Answer: Little Red Riding Hood
• How do we get to the collective unconcious through fairytales? Answer: architypes
• Identify this quote: "if you're really crafty you'll get them both" - the wolf in Little Red Riding Hood
• What are the 3 parts of the universal quest? Answer: seperation, initiation, return
• What are the three parts of the Triple goddess? Answer: Maiden, Mother, Crone
• Why is there no original literature? Answer: all lit. is displaced myth
• When you bow to someone, what are you recognizing within them? Answer: the divine
• The genie says in Disney's Aladdin: I'm not history, I'm mythology
• What is Cideneralla's name in the Grimm version of this fairy tale? Answer: Ashgirl
• ***there will be more questions on the test dealing with differences between versions of fairytales
• According to the motif index Hans My Hedgehog, Beauty and the Beast, and East of the Sun, West of the Moon are what motif? Answer: the search for the missing husband/beast groom
• Out of Rapunzel, Bluebeard, The Juniper Tree, and Snow White, which fairytale has no struggle to concieve? Answer: Bluebeard
• What is the mother/daughter duo? Answer: Demeter and Persephone
• Write a haiku on one fairytale we were assigned to know for the test. For those of you who aren't aware or can't remember a haiku is a 3 line poem with generally 5-7-5 syllable pattern. Haiku's are generally imagistic, however I don't think you have to worry too much about that.
• What is the significance of blue in Bluebeard's beard? Answer: d. all of the above
• What triggers the transformation of the beast back into a human? Answer: Love
• The architype for a talking animal, like Mr. Ed, can be found in which ancient work of literature? Answer: The Golden Ass
• Why did Cupid wake up when psyche was looking at him? Answer: A drop of hot oil landed on his shoulder
• What do you call an error in speach or a deliberate word play like sisty uglers or bleeping sleauty? Answer: spoonerisms
• Which romantic poet believed we do not learn new things, but we just need to be reminded of them because we already know everything? Answer: William Wordsworth
• What mythical story was Beauty and the Beast supposedly derived from? Answer: Cupid and Psyche
• The moral of Bluebeard had to do with a flaw in which gender? Answer: female....curious female, because women are full of sin thanks to Eve
• Which Grimm story has a witch in it? Answer: Hansel and Gretal, witches aren't common in Grimm fairytales
• Which author wanted to marry Little Red Riding Hood? Answer: Dr. Sexson, or Katie Crystal, but the author we talked about in class was Charles Dickens
• What phrase begins most fairytales? Answer: I won't dignify this with an answer, it's too damn easy
• There will be a question that will be answered with Ewe, but to be honest I didn't understand what was going on and I don't remember the story Dr. Sexson was talking about, hopefully someone else puts somthing more clear on their blog.
• There will also be an essay, though not very long

Fairytales that we are responsible for knowing:

1. Little Mermaid
2. Little Red Riding Hood
3. Cinderella
4. Hansel and Gretal
5. Beauty and the Beast
6. Bleeping Sleauty..I mean Sleeping Beauty of course, I had to slip in the spoonerism
7. Snow White
8. Rapunzel
9. East of the Sun, West of the Moon
10. Bluebeard
11. The Juniper Tree

We should know what we said about these fairytales in class and what Tatar has to say about them. Also don't forget to know the difference between these tales and the Grimm fairytales.

Good luck to us!