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Anatomy of Criticism Quiz #1

1 Where was Norhtrop Frye born?
France

USA

Canada

England
2 Where did Frye do most of his teaching?
Harvard

Princeton

Toronto

New York
3 What was Frye’s first book about?
Virginia Woolf

William Blake

Homer

Shakespeare
4 What did Frye originally train as?
A doctor

A minister

A librarian

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

Postmodernism

New Criticism

Feminism
6 What did the New Criticism focus on?
History

Close reading

Psychoanalysis

Biography
7 What was one cause of an increase of students in universities in the 1950s?
The baby boom

Feminism

The GI Bill

Lower admissions standards
8 What does an “essay” mean in its original sense?
An attempt

A proof

A demonstration

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

Feminism

Queer theory

Deconstruction and poststructuralism
10 What does Frye advocate literary criticism be treated as?
A science

A painting

A joke

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

Symbols

History

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

Symbols

Biography

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

Genres

Symbols

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

Ironic

High mimetic

Mythic
15 Which of the following is NOT a mode?
Romantic

Low mimetic

High mimetic

Superior
16 Which of the following is NOT associated with symbols?
Allegory

Sign

Metaphor

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

Monad

Motif

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

Spiritual reference

Descriptive reference

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

Biographical

Historical

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?
High mimetic

Ironic

Low mimetic

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

Romantic

Mythic

Ironic
25 Each mode is also associated with what?
An archetype

A symbol

A historical epoch

A metaphor

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