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Anatomy of Criticism Quiz #1

1 Where was Norhtrop Frye born?
England

France

USA

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

Toronto

New York

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

Homer

William Blake

Shakespeare
4 What did Frye originally train as?
A doctor

A minister

A professor

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

Feminism

New Criticism

Deconstruction
6 What did the New Criticism focus on?
Biography

History

Close reading

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

Lower admissions standards

Feminism

The baby boom
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?
Queer theory

Deconstruction and poststructuralism

Feminism

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

A painting

A speech

A science
11 Frye has a chapter on each of the following except …
Symbols

Myths

History

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

Symbols

Modes

Genres
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

Mythic

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

Low mimetic

Superior

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

Motif

Metaphor

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

Prophesy

Image

Monad
18 A motif is primarily associated with which of the following?
Descriptive reference

Spiritual reference

Imagery

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

Biographical

Historical

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

Metaphor

Monad

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

Mythic

Romantic

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

Mythic

Ironic

Romantic
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?
Romantic

Low mimetic

Mythic

Ironic
25 Each mode is also associated with what?
A historical epoch

A metaphor

An archetype

A symbol

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