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Multiple choice general knowledge

In the happy ending of the story Beauty & the Beast, Beauty settles down to a life of bliss with the now handsome prince & his household, including her father & three brothers. The fate of her two wicked sisters is less agreeable, for they are:

  1. Transformed into living statues & set before the palace gate

  2. Forced to serve as scullery maids in the palace kitchens

  3. Changed into goshawks & fly away, never to be seen again

  4. Chained to a rock on a deserted beach, & left to starve
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Multiple choice general knowledge

In one well known story from brothers Grimm, an old soldier is given the task of watching over a king's daughters each night. By feigning sleep he is able to learn that the girls:

  1. Are nightly transformed into birds & fly to a neighboring kingdom

  2. Spend each night dancing in an underground palace

  3. Draw drops of blood from their forefingers into a diamond bottle

  4. Are visited by an evil witch who forces them to sew for her
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Multiple choice general knowledge

In the well known fairy tale Puss -in -Boots, a cat is able to help it's master from poverty to riches through a series of clever ploys. What special function did the boots have for the cat?

  1. They protected it's feet while walking out of doors

  2. While wearing the boots, it could walk & talk like a man

  3. They allowed it to travel at great speed & become invisable

  4. They gave it a power of persuasion no listener could resist
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Multiple choice general knowledge

After Hansel & Gretel have slain the witch in the Grimm's fairy tale & escaped from the gingerbread cottage, one final obstacle confronts them as they make their way home. What is it?

  1. A solid wall of thorns which opens at the touch from the witch's wand

  2. A gate guarded by an elf dwarf, who is slain by a huntsman

  3. A deep ravine, over which a mighty wind blows them like leaves

  4. A body of water, which they cross with help from a kindly duck
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