Anatomy of Criticism Quizzes

Anatomy of Criticism Quiz #1

1 Where was Norhtrop Frye born?

France

Canada

USA

England
2 Where did Frye do most of his teaching?

Harvard

Princeton

Toronto

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

Shakespeare

Virginia Woolf

William Blake

Homer
4 What did Frye originally train as?

A professor

A doctor

A librarian

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

New Criticism

Postmodernism

Feminism

Deconstruction
6 What did the New Criticism focus on?

Close reading

Biography

History

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

The baby boom

Lower admissions standards

The GI Bill

Feminism
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

Deconstruction and poststructuralism

Feminism

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

A painting

A science

A joke

A speech
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 …

Biography

Modes

Genres

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

Archetypes

Genres

Power of action

Symbols
14 Which of the following is NOT a mode?

Ironic

High mimetic

Inferior

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?

Motif

Metaphor

Allegory

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

Monad

Image

Prophesy

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

Descriptive reference

Imagery

Internal reference

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

Regional

Biographical

Historical

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

Archetype

Monad

Sign

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

Ironic

Romantic

Mythic

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

Low mimetic

Ironic

Mythic

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

Ironic

Low mimetic

Mythic

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

Mythic

Ironic

Low mimetic

Romantic
25 Each mode is also associated with what?

A metaphor

A historical epoch

A symbol

An archetype

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