Anatomy of Criticism Quizzes

Anatomy of Criticism Quiz #1

1 Where was Norhtrop Frye born?

USA

England

Canada

France
2 Where did Frye do most of his teaching?

Harvard

Toronto

New York

Princeton
3 What was Frye’s first book about?

Virginia Woolf

William Blake

Homer

Shakespeare
4 What did Frye originally train as?

A minister

A professor

A librarian

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

New Criticism

Deconstruction

Postmodernism

Feminism
6 What did the New Criticism focus on?

Psychoanalysis

Biography

History

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

The GI Bill

Lower admissions standards

The baby boom

Feminism
8 What does an “essay” mean in its original sense?

A proof

An argument

An attempt

A demonstration
9 What supplanted Frye’s influence in the 1980s?

Deconstruction and poststructuralism

Queer theory

Libertarianism

Feminism
10 What does Frye advocate literary criticism be treated as?

A joke

A speech

A science

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

History

Modes

Symbols

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

Modes

Symbols

Biography

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

Archetypes

Symbols

Power of action

Genres
14 Which of the following is NOT a mode?

Inferior

Mythic

Ironic

High mimetic
15 Which of the following is NOT a mode?

High mimetic

Superior

Low mimetic

Romantic
16 Which of the following is NOT associated with symbols?

Metaphor

Sign

Motif

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

Monad

Motif

Image

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

Spiritual reference

Imagery

Descriptive reference

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

Universal

Biographical

Regional

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

Metaphor

Archetype

Monad

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

Romantic

High mimetic

Mythic

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

Romantic

Low mimetic

Ironic

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

Ironic

Low mimetic

Mythic

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

Mythic

Low mimetic

Romantic

Ironic
25 Each mode is also associated with what?

An archetype

A symbol

A metaphor

A historical epoch

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