Anatomy of Criticism Quizzes

Anatomy of Criticism Quiz #1

1 Where was Norhtrop Frye born?

France

Canada

England

USA
2 Where did Frye do most of his teaching?

Princeton

Harvard

New York

Toronto
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?

Deconstruction

Postmodernism

New Criticism

Feminism
6 What did the New Criticism focus on?

Biography

Psychoanalysis

Close reading

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

Lower admissions standards

The baby boom

Feminism

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

A demonstration

An attempt

An argument

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

Feminism

Libertarianism

Deconstruction and poststructuralism

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

A science

A speech

A joke

A painting
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 …

Biography

Modes

Symbols

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

Genres

Power of action

Symbols

Archetypes
14 Which of the following is NOT a mode?

Inferior

Ironic

High mimetic

Mythic
15 Which of the following is NOT a mode?

Superior

Romantic

High mimetic

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

Allegory

Metaphor

Sign

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

Prophesy

Monad

Motif

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

Internal reference

Descriptive reference

Spiritual reference

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

Historical

Regional

Universal

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

Sign

Metaphor

Monad

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

Romantic

Mythic

High mimetic

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

Ironic

Low mimetic

Mythic

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

High mimetic

Ironic

Low mimetic

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

Ironic

Mythic

Low mimetic

Romantic
25 Each mode is also associated with what?

A metaphor

A historical epoch

An archetype

A symbol

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