The Following Excerpt Is from the Introduction to Jacob and Wilhelm

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Multiple Choice

The following excerpt is from the introduction to Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Children's Stories and Household Tales (Evaluating the Evidence 21.3) : "The true value of these tales must really be set quite high: they put our ancient heroic poetry in a new light that could not have been produced in any other way. Briar Rose [or Sleeping Beauty], who is put to sleep after being pricked by a spindle, is really Brunhilde, put to sleep after being pricked by a thorn. . . . Snow White sleeps peacefully with the same glowing red colors of life on her cheeks as Snaefrid, the most beautiful woman of all, at whose coffin sits Harald the Fair-Haired [Brunhilde, Snaefrid, and Harald are characters from ancient Germanic myths]. . . . These folktales have kept intact German myths that were thought to be lost. . . ."
The Grimms linked Snow White and Sleeping Beauty to

• A)contemporary political figures.
• B)characters from German myths.
• C)Greek archetypes.
• D)figures from Roman history.

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