Grimm and Perrault Unfiltered
Winning wolves, red-hot shoes, cruel endings: forget Disney and read the real fairy tales
What this quiz asks
- 1The Brothers Grimm, great collectors of tales, came from which country?
- 2In Perrault's tale, how does « Little Red Riding Hood » really end?
- 3In Perrault, what is Cinderella's famous slipper made of?
- 4In the Grimms' « Cinderella », what do the stepsisters do to fit into the slipper?
- 5In the Grimms' first edition (1812), who is the villain of « Snow White »?
- 6In the Grimms' « The Frog King », how does the frog turn back into a prince?
- 7At the end of the Grimms' « Snow White », what fate awaits the jealous queen?
- 8Perrault's « Sleeping Beauty » has a forgotten second part. What danger arises after she wakes?
- 9In an early Grimm version, which detail of « Rapunzel » was later censored?
- 10How does Perrault end each of his tales?
