1. The first volume of the Grimms' tales contained 84 stories. How many were added in volume two?

   1. 99

   2. 90

   3. 80

   4. 70

2. What was the original title for the brothers' collection?

   1. A Golden Treasury

   2. Children’s and Household Tales

   3. Tales of Wonder and Imagination

   4. Go the F**k to Sleep

3. In The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids, seven little goats are eaten by the big bad villain. How does the story end?

   1. The kids tickle the wolf's insides until he coughs them up, and with their mother's help they cook him for a magnificent dinner

   2. Their father returns and kicks the wolf so hard that one by one the children pop out of his mouth

   3. The wolf falls asleep from overeating, allowing mother goat to cut his belly open, release the unharmed youngsters and replace them with rocks

   4. The wolf remembers his own brothers and sisters being eaten by a bigger, badder wolf and is so stricken with remorse that he cuts open his own belly to release the little ones

4. Which of these is NOT the title of a Grimms' fairytale?

   1. The Pig and the Butcher

   2. The Crystal Ball

   3. Maid Maleen

   4. The Boots of Buffalo Leather

5. The unlikely friendship in Cat and Mouse in Partnership goes sour after the mouse discovers the cat has eaten all the fat they were saving for winter. The cat then eats the mouse and the story ends with the words …

   1. “Cats and mice should never be partners”

   2. “Cats are not as sweet as they look”

   3. "And that is the way of the world"

   4. “And everybody else lived happily ever after”

6. What was the Grimms' alternate title for The Frog Prince?

   1. The Princess's Kiss

   2. Iron Heinrich

   3. The Enchanted Lily Pad

   4. A Hop Too High

7. Which character familiar from retellings of the Cinderella story is absent from the Grimms' version?

   1. The fairy godmother

   2. The wicked stepmother

   3. The stepsisters

   4. The prince

8. What is the Queen's eventual punishment for her attempts to have Snow White killed?

   1. She is forced to wear red-hot iron shoes, and to dance until she drops dead

   2. She is shrunk to half the size of the seven dwarves and becomes their servant

   3. A spell confines her to live inside the enchanted mirror

   4. Snow White kills and eats her

9. Who wrote that the Grimms' fairytales were “among the few indispendable, common-property books upon which western culture can be founded"?

   1. TS Eliot

   2. Harold Bloom

   3. WH Auden

   4. Michael Gove

10. Fairytales were far from the brothers' only interest. Jacob formulated what is known as Grimm's Law. What is this?

    1. A popular guide for parents laying down rules for effective discipline

    2. A philological classification of sound-changes in the history of Germanic languages

    3. A mathematical theory of calculating perfect numbers

    4. The explanation for why stories should always begin with the words “once upon a time”

Solutions

1:D, 2:B, 3:C, 4:A, 5:C, 6:B, 7:A, 8:A, 9:C, 10:B

Scores

1. 3 and above.

   Oh dear. Your house of books is a little flimsy, and the quiz has blown it down

2. 4 and above.

   A pretty good effort, but you'll need some more correct answers to find a happy ending

3. 8 and above.

   Your knowledge of fairytales is frankly amazing. Are you a witch disguised as a keen reader?