Anatomy of Criticism Quizzes

Anatomy of Criticism Quiz #1

1 Where was Norhtrop Frye born?

Canada

England

USA

France
2 Where did Frye do most of his teaching?

Toronto

New York

Harvard

Princeton
3 What was Frye’s first book about?

Virginia Woolf

William Blake

Shakespeare

Homer
4 What did Frye originally train as?

A librarian

A doctor

A professor

A minister
5 What literary movement was most popular during Frye’s time?

New Criticism

Deconstruction

Feminism

Postmodernism
6 What did the New Criticism focus on?

Psychoanalysis

History

Close reading

Biography
7 What was one cause of an increase of students in universities in the 1950s?

The GI Bill

The baby boom

Feminism

Lower admissions standards
8 What does an “essay” mean in its original sense?

A demonstration

A proof

An attempt

An argument
9 What supplanted Frye’s influence in the 1980s?

Deconstruction and poststructuralism

Feminism

Libertarianism

Queer theory
10 What does Frye advocate literary criticism be treated as?

A joke

A painting

A speech

A science
11 Frye has a chapter on each of the following except …

Modes

Myths

Symbols

History
12 Frye has a chapter on each of the following except …

Genres

Symbols

Modes

Biography
13 With what is a “mode” primarily associated?

Genres

Archetypes

Power of action

Symbols
14 Which of the following is NOT a mode?

Ironic

Inferior

High mimetic

Mythic
15 Which of the following is NOT a mode?

Superior

High mimetic

Romantic

Low mimetic
16 Which of the following is NOT associated with symbols?

Sign

Motif

Metaphor

Allegory
17 Which of the following is NOT associated with symbols?

Motif

Prophesy

Image

Monad
18 A motif is primarily associated with which of the following?

Descriptive reference

Internal reference

Spiritual reference

Imagery
19 Which of the following goes with a “monad”?

Universal

Regional

Biographical

Historical
20 Centripetal is to “motif” as centrifugal is to

Monad

Archetype

Sign

Metaphor
21 Gods are associated with which of the following modes?

Ironic

High mimetic

Romantic

Mythic
22 Heroes are associated with which of the following modes?

Low mimetic

Romantic

Mythic

Ironic
23 The everyman is associated with which of the following modes?

Mythic

Ironic

High mimetic

Low mimetic
24 The scoundrel is associated with which of the following modes?

Ironic

Low mimetic

Romantic

Mythic
25 Each mode is also associated with what?

A symbol

A metaphor

An archetype

A historical epoch

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