Deck 43: Harry Potter: a Rankian Analysis of the Hero of Hogwarts, M Katherine Grimes

Question 1

Otto Rank's research into the ________________ is at the heart of this chapter's discussion of the Harry Potter stories.

A) journey of the hero
B) family romance
C) Oedipus complex
D) Electra complex

Answer 1

B

Question 2

According to Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank, the fundamental source of myths is the ___________________________.

A) desire to be a hero
B) stories one reads and hear
C) rituals of a society
D) human unconscious

Answer 2

D

Question 3

In The Myth of the Birth of the Hero, Rank illustrated his belief that people create heroes as a way of ______________________________________.

A) explaining their world to outsiders
B) showing how they would do things
C) dealing with a feeling of powerlessness
D) boasting of their noble and worthy lineage

Answer 3

C

Question 4

___________________ is Rank's term for the reversal of relationship roles used by children to cope with negative feelings about parents.

A) Projection
B) Rejection
C) Imagination
D) Substitution

Question 5

Rank's basic elements of the hero myth fulfilled in the Harry Potter series include:

A) the boy is separated from his parents.
B) the boy has special magical powers.
C) the boy is the son of royal or even immortal parents.
D) a and c.
E) a, b, and c.

Question 6

In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry receives his father's _____________, which figures broadly in many myths.

A) magic wand
B) cloak of invisibility
C) book of wizardry
D) treasure map

Question 7

M. Katherine Grimes explains the significance of three manifestations of James Potter. She does NOT include________________.

A) the animal Prongs
B) a ghostly image of Harry from an earlier time
C) his father's image living in Harry
D) Voldemort

Question 8

Joseph : Jesus :: _________________ : Harry Potter

A) Ron Weasley
B) Professor Dumbledore
C) Sirius Black
D) Severus Snape

Question 9

Uncle Vernon Dursley fulfills the condition for a hero described by Otto Rank that _____________________.

A) the baby is suckled by animals or lowly persons
B) the hero is reconciled with his father (or representative)
C) the child's life is threatened when a dream or oracle warns the father or another royal personage that the boy will be a danger
D) the boy is the son of royal or even immortal parents

Question 10

In The Sorcerer's Stone, when Harry looks into the Mirror of Erised, he sees ______________.

A) himself as an adult
B) his parents
C) Hermione Granger
D) a, b, and c

Question 11

Otto Rank maintained that the complex of feelings in a family concerning the status of parents and the relationships between children and parents motivates the creation of the ___________________ myth.

Question 12

_____________________ is the author of the Harry Potter books.

Question 13

In the Harry Potter series, ________________________ fills the role of Rank's evil father substitute.

Question 14

Harry's father James is an outstanding _______________ with special powers.

Question 15

Like ________________'s father, Harry's father James dies because of a prophecy involving the son.

Question 16

Vernon Dursley illustrates Rank's ideas about the _______________ figure in the archtetypal hero myth.

Question 17

Sirius Black, Harry's godfather, often appears in the shape of a _________________.

Question 18

In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, beams from both Harry's and Voldemort's magic wands unite because they contain ________________ from Albus Dumbledore's phoenix, Fawkes.

Question 19

Figuratively speaking, ___________________: Harry :: Zeus : Hercules

Question 20

In estimating the importance of Harry's mother Lily, we might include Carl Jung's consideration that mother figures are representations of the hero's _______________.