Quiz for Evaluating the Evidence 21.3: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Children’s Stories and Household Tales

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1. With which of these statements would Wilhelm Grimm have agreed?

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B.
C.
D.

Correct. The answer is a. Grimm saw the collection of folk songs and household tales as a way to revive the lost poetry of an earlier time.
Incorrect. The answer is a. Grimm saw the collection of folk songs and household tales as a way to revive the lost poetry of an earlier time.
1. With which of these statements would Wilhelm Grimm have agreed?

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2. Which of these assumptions was central to the Grimms’s project?

A.
B.
C.
D.

Correct. The answer is c. The Grimms’s believed that folk tales had roots in the earliest German myths, poems, and stories.
Incorrect. The answer is c. The Grimms’s believed that folk tales had roots in the earliest German myths, poems, and stories.
2. Which of these assumptions was central to the Grimms’s project?

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3. To which of these purposes did the Grimms’s hope to put the folk tales they collected?

A.
B.
C.
D.

Correct. The answer is b. The Grimms believed that folk tales would allow them to discover the essence of early German poetry and, by extension, something of the essential qualities of the German people.
Incorrect. The answer is b. The Grimms believed that folk tales would allow them to discover the essence of early German poetry and, by extension, something of the essential qualities of the German people.
3. To which of these purposes did the Grimms’s hope to put the folk tales they collected?