The Following Excerpt Is from the Introduction to Jacob and Wilhelm

question 9

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) : "These folktales have kept intact German myths that were thought to be lost, and we are firmly convinced that if a search were conducted in all the hallowed regions of our fatherland, long neglected treasures would transform themselves into fabulous treasures and help to found the study of the origins of our poetry. It works the same way with the many dialects of our language. In them a large part of the words and peculiarities that we had long held to be defunct live on undetected."
The Grimms saw folktales as windows into

• A)the minds of ordinary Germans.
• B)the distant German past.
• C)Germany's future.
• D)the peasant mentality.

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