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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?
New York

Princeton

Harvard

Toronto
3 What was Frye’s first book about?
William Blake

Shakespeare

Homer

Virginia Woolf
4 What did Frye originally train as?
A doctor

A librarian

A minister

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?
History

Biography

Close reading

Psychoanalysis
7 What was one cause of an increase of students in universities in the 1950s?
Lower admissions standards

Feminism

The baby boom

The GI Bill
8 What does an “essay” mean in its original sense?
A proof

A demonstration

An attempt

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

Queer theory

Deconstruction and poststructuralism

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

A science

A painting

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

Modes

Myths

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

Genres

Modes

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

Genres

Symbols

Power of action
14 Which of the following is NOT a mode?
High mimetic

Ironic

Mythic

Inferior
15 Which of the following is NOT a mode?
Low mimetic

Romantic

Superior

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

Metaphor

Allegory

Motif
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?
Spiritual reference

Imagery

Descriptive reference

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

Universal

Biographical

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

Metaphor

Archetype

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

Romantic

High mimetic

Mythic
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?
High mimetic

Mythic

Low mimetic

Ironic
24 The scoundrel is associated with which of the following modes?
Mythic

Low mimetic

Romantic

Ironic
25 Each mode is also associated with what?
A historical epoch

A symbol

A metaphor

An archetype

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