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Anatomy of Criticism Quiz #1

1 Where was Norhtrop Frye born?
USA

Canada

France

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

Toronto

New York

Harvard
3 What was Frye’s first book about?
Shakespeare

Homer

William Blake

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

A librarian

A professor

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

Postmodernism

New Criticism

Feminism
6 What did the New Criticism focus on?
Psychoanalysis

Close reading

History

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

The GI Bill

The baby boom

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

An argument

An attempt

A demonstration
9 What supplanted Frye’s influence in the 1980s?
Queer theory

Libertarianism

Deconstruction and poststructuralism

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

A joke

A science

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

Symbols

Myths

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

Biography

Modes

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

Power of action

Symbols

Genres
14 Which of the following is NOT a mode?
Inferior

Mythic

High mimetic

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

Superior

Romantic

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

Motif

Metaphor

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

Motif

Image

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

Regional

Biographical

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

Sign

Metaphor

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

Ironic

Mythic

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

Mythic

Romantic

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

Low mimetic

Ironic

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

Mythic

Ironic

Low mimetic
25 Each mode is also associated with what?
An archetype

A symbol

A historical epoch

A metaphor

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