Anatomy of Criticism Quizzes

Anatomy of Criticism Quiz #1

1 Where was Norhtrop Frye born?

England

USA

Canada

France
2 Where did Frye do most of his teaching?

Harvard

New York

Princeton

Toronto
3 What was Frye’s first book about?

Shakespeare

Virginia Woolf

Homer

William Blake
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

Feminism

New Criticism

Deconstruction
6 What did the New Criticism focus on?

Close reading

History

Biography

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

Feminism

Lower admissions standards

The baby boom

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

An attempt

An argument

A demonstration

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 painting

A joke

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

Myths

History

Symbols

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

Genres

Modes

Biography

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

Power of action

Archetypes

Symbols

Genres
14 Which of the following is NOT a mode?

High mimetic

Mythic

Inferior

Ironic
15 Which of the following is NOT a mode?

Low mimetic

High mimetic

Superior

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

Allegory

Sign

Motif

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

Monad

Motif

Prophesy

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

Imagery

Internal reference

Spiritual reference

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

Regional

Biographical

Universal

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

Metaphor

Monad

Sign

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

High mimetic

Mythic

Romantic

Ironic
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

Low mimetic

High 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?

An archetype

A metaphor

A historical epoch

A symbol

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