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Anatomy of Criticism Quiz #1

1 Where was Norhtrop Frye born?
USA

England

France

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

Harvard

Toronto

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

Homer

Shakespeare

William Blake
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?
Feminism

Deconstruction

Postmodernism

New Criticism
6 What did the New Criticism focus on?
Psychoanalysis

Close reading

Biography

History
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?
An argument

A proof

An attempt

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

Queer theory

Deconstruction and poststructuralism

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

A speech

A painting

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

History

Symbols

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

Modes

Biography

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

Archetypes

Power of action

Symbols
14 Which of the following is NOT a mode?
Mythic

High mimetic

Inferior

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

Superior

Romantic

Low 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

Prophesy

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

Imagery

Descriptive reference

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

Biographical

Universal

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

Sign

Archetype

Metaphor
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?
Romantic

Ironic

Mythic

Low mimetic
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

Low mimetic

Ironic

Mythic
25 Each mode is also associated with what?
A metaphor

A historical epoch

A symbol

An archetype

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