Answers to Fantasy Quiz 2

 

1. Alan Garner's fantasy The Owl Service is based on which Welsh legend:

b) Gwydion, Lleu, Blodeuedd

2. In T. H. White's The Once and Future King, Mordred is the son of Arthur's half-sister:

a) Morgause (More recent writers have found ways to ascribe Mordred's birth to a liaison between Arthur and Morgan, but T.H. White went with the older traditions and stuck with Morgause. Interestingly, the third sister, Elaine—not to be confused with Lancelot's Elaine—is almost universally ignored.)

3. Tanith Lee's retelling of the Romeo and Juliet story is titled:

c) Sung in Shadow

4. Frank Stockton, probably best known for writing the short story "The Lady, or the Tiger," also wrote:

d) "The Griffin and the Minor Canon" (The other three stories were written by Stockton's contemporary, Fitz-James O'Brien.)

5. Which of these books was NOT written by E. R. Eddison?

c) Gormenghast

6. In J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion, the Dark Lord before Sauron rose to power was called:

a) Morgoth

7. In The Blue Star by Fletcher Pratt, the blue star of the title is:

c) a gift from a witch to her lover (The gift is a blue stone.)

8. The main conflict in Eddison's The Worm Ouroboros is between:

d) Demons and Witches

9. In Patricia McKillip's Riddlemaster trilogy, which of these land-rulers transforms himself into a wolf:

a) Har of Osterland

10. The Fates of the Princes of Dyfed, Book of the Three Dragons, and The Secret Mountain, were all written by:

b) Kenneth Morris

11. The Dark Angel, by Meredith Ann Pierce takes place:

c) on the Moon

12. Match the author to the book:

aB. Margot Benary-Isbert, The Wicked Enchantment
bD. Thomas Burnett Swan, The Tournament of Thorns
cC. Nicholas Stuart Grey, The Seventh Swan
dA. John Masefield, The Midnight Folk

 

 

Scores and Rankings

0-3: Without note.
Obviously, you need to spend more time in used-book stores.

4-6: Impressive
Unless you're over fifty, in which case you're still pretty good. Award yourself a pair of elf-ears, or a weekend in Lothlorien.

7-10: Very impressive
We're guessing you spent your senior year in High School trying to cultivate a long grey beard, and signed everyone's yearbook "Gandalf." (Or, if female, you wore long flowing white dresses , and wondered why your parents didn't think to name you something GOOD like "Goldberry Dreamweaver Starshine.")

11-12: Supernaturally impressive
The years you've spent in ancient moldering libraries poring over musty volumes of forgotten lore were far from wasted, but let's be frank—isn't it time you stepped outside for a little fresh air?