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Anatomy of Criticism Quiz #1

1 Where was Norhtrop Frye born?
England

France

Canada

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

Harvard

New York

Toronto
3 What was Frye’s first book about?
Homer

Shakespeare

William Blake

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

A librarian

A minister

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

Postmodernism

New Criticism

Deconstruction
6 What did the New Criticism focus on?
Psychoanalysis

History

Biography

Close reading
7 What was one cause of an increase of students in universities in the 1950s?
Lower admissions standards

The GI Bill

Feminism

The baby boom
8 What does an “essay” mean in its original sense?
An argument

An attempt

A demonstration

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

Deconstruction and poststructuralism

Libertarianism

Queer theory
10 What does Frye advocate literary criticism be treated as?
A joke

A science

A speech

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

Symbols

Modes

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

Genres

Symbols

Biography
13 With what is a “mode” primarily associated?
Power of action

Symbols

Genres

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

Ironic

Mythic

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

Romantic

Low mimetic

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

Motif

Sign

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

Prophesy

Image

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

Internal reference

Descriptive reference

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

Biographical

Regional

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

Archetype

Monad

Metaphor
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?
Romantic

Low mimetic

Mythic

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

Low mimetic

High mimetic

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

Low mimetic

Ironic

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

A historical epoch

A symbol

An archetype

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