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Anatomy of Criticism Quiz #1

1 Where was Norhtrop Frye born?

Canada

France

England

USA
2 Where did Frye do most of his teaching?

Harvard

Princeton

New York

Toronto
3 What was Frye’s first book about?

William Blake

Homer

Virginia Woolf

Shakespeare
4 What did Frye originally train as?

A librarian

A minister

A doctor

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

Postmodernism

New Criticism

Deconstruction

Feminism
6 What did the New Criticism focus on?

Psychoanalysis

Close reading

Biography

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

The GI Bill

Lower admissions standards

Feminism

The baby boom
8 What does an “essay” mean in its original sense?

An attempt

A demonstration

An argument

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

Queer theory

Feminism

Deconstruction and poststructuralism

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

A speech

A science

A joke

A painting
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 …

Modes

Biography

Genres

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

Symbols

Power of action

Genres

Archetypes
14 Which of the following is NOT a mode?

Ironic

Mythic

Inferior

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

Romantic

Superior

Low mimetic

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

Metaphor

Motif

Allegory

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

Prophesy

Image

Motif

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

Historical

Biographical

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

Monad

Sign

Metaphor

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

Mythic

Romantic

Ironic

High mimetic
22 Heroes are associated with which of the following modes?

Ironic

Romantic

Low mimetic

Mythic
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?

Mythic

Ironic

Romantic

Low mimetic
25 Each mode is also associated with what?

An archetype

A metaphor

A symbol

A historical epoch

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