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A Review of Tolkiens Essay
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1
A good fairy-tale is more than the sum of its parts. That is why
"its very richness and strangeness tie the tongue of [its] traveler"
You find it hard to explain why the stories you love are great
"it is dangerous... to ask too many questions"
Comprehensive analysis will tell you all you need to know about a tale
2
In order to enjoy a good fairy-tale, you must suspend your disbelief that these things could actually happen.
False
True
3
Without Recovery, fairy-stories may suffer from
"A danger of boredom"
Darkness, ugliness & shocking violence
An appeal to the heroic
"Anxiety to be original"
4
“The true form of fairy-tale, and its highest function” is the _________________________
Eucatastrophe
Dyscatastrophe
Enchantment
Drama
5
A common form of the eucatastrophe in Fairy-Stories is
The Damsel in Distress
The Quest
Errantry
The Happily Ever After
6
Tolkien thought the archaic was a reasonable escape from
Glass-Roofed Train Stations
Motor-Cars
Nature
Electric Streetlights
7
What element of language gives the author "an enchanter's power"?
the adverb
the adjective
the preposition
the article
8
According to Tolkien, fairy-tales are primarily for kids.
True
False
9
Aside from LOTR, Steve's favorite fictional eucatastrophe
The Dark Knight's escape from the pit
Neo's resurrection in The Matrix
The arrival of the other Spider-Men in No Way Home
Captain America wielding Thor's hammer
10
Eucatastrophe, the "sudden, joyous turn," is the opposite of the ____________________.
Tragedy
Comedy
Poetry
Fantasy
11
The most significant eucatastrophe for Tolkien was
The Resurrection
The Incarnation
Beowulf's defeat of the monsters
D-Day
12
___________________ is the art of transforming imagination into Fantasy.
Faërie
Enchantment
Consolation
Recovery
13
"Fairy-stories [are] plainly not concerned with possibility but ___________"
desirability
impossibility
innovation
realism
14
Faërie is a perilous realm, where the traveler may experience "both _____ and ______ as sharp as swords."
joy and sorrow
loyalty and treason
hope and despair
fear and love
15
The author's ___________________ must have the "inner consistency of reality."
Primary Belief
Secondary World
Primary World
Secondary Belief
16
________________ empowers the reader to see things as they are (or were) "meant to see them"
Recovery
Enchantment
Consolation
Escape
17
Which event from Book I could be considered a eucatastrophe?
Tom Bombadil's rescue from the Barrow-Wights
The arrival of Gildor Inglorion in the Woody End
Farmer Maggot's Mushroom Surprise
Hitting Bill Ferny in the face with an apple
18
Part of the magic of the fairy-story is that the adventure is mostly about
men and the natural world
futuristic worlds
witches, trolls and giants
elves, dwarves and dragons
19
Fairy-stories may offer this kind of escape
From humanity
From gravity
From mortality
From sanity
20
Those who condemn fantasy literature as merely "escapist" are confusing the Escape of the Prisoner with the ____________
Wishful Thinking
Escape of the Enlightened
Flight of the Deserter
Flight from the Future
