Comments on: Lunchtime Quiz: Fairy Tales

By: Mare

Mare — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:29:49 +0000

93% I flubbed the Goose one.

That blue book – Andrew Lang’s The Blue Fairy Book. Lang collected fairy tales, the basic ones are in the Red and Blue, but I’ve actually read the Vermilion and Chartreuse… really wierd, religious allegory stuff… but Fairy Tales are awesome.

Did you all know that the original Sleeping Beauty features rape and cannibalism? Take that, Disney!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:01:04 +0000

Christina,

Where does one get a MA in Children’s Lit?

I’d love to add that to my MLIS…

By: Marcus

Marcus — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:38:47 +0000

Nerak’s results are EXACTLY the same as mine.
freaky, and all thanks to a “Hans Christian Andersen” story collection.

reCAPTCHA: writers Keeler
(does anyone know wat keeler means?)

By: Nerak

Nerak — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:32:36 +0000

93% 14/15

I must have been getting “The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs” confused with “The Golden Goose” by the Grimms.

I think I remember it now though. Does he get impatient and chop open the goose expecting to find more gold inside?

By: Julia

Julia — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:58:30 +0000

13/15…and i knew i was making them wrong but didnt both to change them…very fun, i used the same logic, scary grimm, happy anderson, meaning aesop…

reCAPTCHA & Awakening

By: Emily

Emily — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:55:15 +0000

I loved this quiz! I honestly didn’t do too well, but I got all the answers right for the Brothers Grimm.

Did you know Repunzal wouldn’t have been cast out of the castle had she not said “Grandmother, why are my clothes getting tighter?”

That prince kept coming to visit her, get it? But that was changed because it was too taboo for children.
I think there was another one about her asking “Why are you so much heavier to pull up than the prince?” too.

By: Kolja

Kolja — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:35:30 +0000

73%…not that great really, but not horrendous.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:25:14 +0000

87%. Not terrible. At least I know more about the stories I suppose. . . it’s always fun to see what people think about the real (not Disney) endings of fairy tales.

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:16:05 +0000

I had the Little Mermaid story (the real one) and I never really listened too it because I loved the illustrations so much. When I got older and figured out the story I was kind of sad, but it started my lifelong obsession with fairy tales- I had all the Grimm stories too, and I was almost always the first one to pipe up in several classes if we got on the subject of disney movies with “That’s not the real thing, you know..” Yeah..English majors rock.

By: beth

beth — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:55:53 +0000

Aced it too! :)

The Brother’s Grimm stories always a grim!