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Quiz about What We Learned Not to Do from Fairy Tales
Quiz about What We Learned Not to Do from Fairy Tales

What We Learned Not to Do from Fairy Tales Quiz


Here are some things you might learn NOT to do by reading fairy tales. Which tale matches the rule?

A multiple-choice quiz by SBH. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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Author
SBH
Time
6 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
361,444
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Difficult
Avg Score
5 / 10
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1497
Last 3 plays: Linda_Arizona (6/10), moonraker2 (4/10), Guest 71 (10/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. Never miss your curfew! Which fairy tale presents a cautionary story about a girl who fails to heed this advice? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Never accept food from strangers! Who nearly comes to grief when they fail to heed this warning? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Don't go snooping in places you're told to stay out of! What tale tells of a newly married person whose curiosity gets the better of them? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Don't pick things that grow in other people's gardens! Which fairy tale begins with someone who breaks this rule on behalf of someone they love? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Treat all your dinner guests with courtesy! In what tale does a failure of etiquette set off a chain of events with potentially dire consequences? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Take good care of anything your mother gives you! (Like a handkerchief, for instance.) In what fairy tale does a princess face difficult circumstances as a result of losing a precious gift from her mother? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Never speak to strangers! Which fairy tale character is famous for neglecting this good advice? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Don't ask for the impossible! Quite a few fairy tales are hard on people who greedily demand things they can't have. Which of the following is one of them? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Don't gossip! In which tale does a young bride come to grief because she disobeys her husband and talks about him with her mother? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Don't be lazy! In which of these stories is industry rewarded and laziness punished? Hint



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1. Never miss your curfew! Which fairy tale presents a cautionary story about a girl who fails to heed this advice?

Answer: Cinderella

Cinderella's fairy godmother warns her to leave the royal ball by the stroke of midnight, but she doesn't quite manage it, and her magic gown, coach and horses all disappear. Of course, it all works out in the end, and she gets to marry the handsome prince anyway.
2. Never accept food from strangers! Who nearly comes to grief when they fail to heed this warning?

Answer: Snow White

Snow White accepts an enchanted apple from a little old peddlar woman who's actually the wicked queen in disguise. Luckily, her bite of the poisoned apple only lodges in her throat, and the prince is able to awaken her from a deathlike sleep with true love's kiss.
3. Don't go snooping in places you're told to stay out of! What tale tells of a newly married person whose curiosity gets the better of them?

Answer: Bluebeard

Bluebeard tells his new bride that she mustn't go exploring through his house, but she does it anyway, only to discover he's got a room full of bodies of his previous wives. Perhaps they were also too inquisitive for their own good.
4. Don't pick things that grow in other people's gardens! Which fairy tale begins with someone who breaks this rule on behalf of someone they love?

Answer: Rapunzel

Rapunzel's pregnant mother craves the greens she sees growing in the neighbouring garden, which, unfortunately, are the property of a witch. Her husband scales the wall to pick her some, but is caught and only escapes by promising that the witch can have the unborn child ... which is how Rapunzel starts her life locked up in a tower.
5. Treat all your dinner guests with courtesy! In what tale does a failure of etiquette set off a chain of events with potentially dire consequences?

Answer: Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty's parents invite the fairies to celebrate her birth, but they fail to offer the same hospitality to one of them. She lays the curse upon the baby that, when she comes of age, she will prick her finger in a spindle and die. Luckily, one of the other fairies has not yet given her gift to the child, so she commutes the curse to a 100-year sleep instead of death.
6. Take good care of anything your mother gives you! (Like a handkerchief, for instance.) In what fairy tale does a princess face difficult circumstances as a result of losing a precious gift from her mother?

Answer: The Goose Girl

In this tale, the queen gives her daughter a handkerchief dotted with drops of her own blood, but the princess loses it on a journey while drinking from a stream. Unfortunately, the cloth offered her magic protection, and as soon as she loses it, her wicked servant girl is able to switch places with her.

The princess becomes a lowly goose girl until she can prove her true identity to the king of the country to which they've travelled.
7. Never speak to strangers! Which fairy tale character is famous for neglecting this good advice?

Answer: Little Red Riding Hood

Little Red Riding Hood should never have spoken to the wolf while she was on her way through the woods to her grandmother's house! In some versions, the wolf is killed and Little Red survives, but in others both she and her grandmother are eaten!
8. Don't ask for the impossible! Quite a few fairy tales are hard on people who greedily demand things they can't have. Which of the following is one of them?

Answer: The Twelve Months

Katrinka's mean stepmother and stepsister insist that she must go into the woods to collect strawberries in January, as well as other crops that are out of season. The Twelve Months, personified as twelve brothers around a campfire, take pity on her, but when her wicked relations try to get more out-of-season goodies for themselves, they are never heard from again.
9. Don't gossip! In which tale does a young bride come to grief because she disobeys her husband and talks about him with her mother?

Answer: East of the Sun and West of the Moon

This is one of many tales in which a young bride is asked to trust her husband's secretive ways; for instance, the classical myth of Cupid and Psyche uses the same plot element. In "East of the Sun and West of the Moon", because the young bride has broken faith with her husband, he must leave her, and she is forced to carry out a difficult search for him before they can be reunited.
10. Don't be lazy! In which of these stories is industry rewarded and laziness punished?

Answer: Mother Holle

In Mother Holle, the heroine encounters a strange old woman who asks her to perform numerous chores, which she does to perfection. She is rewarded by being covered in gold, but when her lazy sister tries the same thing, she is repaid by being covered in pitch.
Source: Author SBH

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