Fairy Tale Authors Quiz

Which fairy tale writer is a father of the fairy tale literary genre? Who was one of the first to write fairy tales?

• Grimm Brothers

• Charles Perrault

• Giambattista Basile

• Giovan Francesco Straparola

• Hans Christian Andersen

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Which fairy tale writer is a father of classical / modern fairy tale tradition?

• Grimm Brothers

• Charles Perrault

• Giambattista Basile

• Giovan Francesco Straparola

• Hans Christian Andersen

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Who was a pioneer of dialect literature and was a famous Neapolitan poet and fairy tale writer?

• Grimm Brothers

• Giambattista Basile

• Charles Perrault

• Giovan Francesco Straparola

• Marie - Catherine d’Aulnoy

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Which author’s last name means “talkative” and was most likely a pseudonym?

• Grimm Brothers

• Giovan Francesco Straparola

• Charles Perrault

• Giambattista Basile

• Marie - Catherine d’Aulnoy

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Which author(s) had the largest collection of fairy tales?

• Charles Perrault

• Giovan Francesco Straparola

• Grimm Brothers

• Giambattista Basile

• Marie - Catherine d’Aulnoy

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Whose collection of fairy tales was the smallest - only 2 fairy tales?

• Charles Perrault

• Giambattista Basile

• Eustache Le Noble

• Jean de Mailly

• Marie - Catherine d’Aulnoy

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Who wrote the “Tales of Mother Goose” fairy tales collection which consisted of 8 fairy tales?

• Charles Perrault

• Giovan Francesco Straparola

• Grimm Brothers

• Marie - Catherine d’Aulnoy

• Giambattista Basile

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Who wrote the “The Tale of Tales” fairy tales collection, which was later renamed to “Il Pentamerone” and consisted of 50 fairy tales?

• Giovan Francesco Straparola

• Jean de Mailly

• Giambattista Basile

• Hans Christian Andersen

• Marie - Catherine d’Aulnoy

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Who came up with the term “contes des fees” which means “fairy tales”?

• Marie - Catherine d’Aulnoy

• Jeanne-Marie de Beaumont

• Henriette Julie de Murat

•  Eustache Le Noble

• Charles Perrault

This author wrote fairy tales explicitly for children. This author's version of the "Beauty and the Beast" is the most famous?

• Marie - Catherine d’Aulnoy

• Jeanne-Marie de Beaumont

• Henriette Julie de Murat

•  Eustache Le Noble

• Charles Perrault