Anatomy of Criticism Quizzes

Anatomy of Criticism Quiz #1

1 Where was Norhtrop Frye born?

France

USA

Canada

England
2 Where did Frye do most of his teaching?

Princeton

Toronto

New York

Harvard
3 What was Frye’s first book about?

William Blake

Homer

Shakespeare

Virginia Woolf
4 What did Frye originally train as?

A librarian

A professor

A minister

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

Deconstruction

Feminism

New Criticism

Postmodernism
6 What did the New Criticism focus on?

History

Biography

Psychoanalysis

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

The GI Bill

The baby boom

Lower admissions standards

Feminism
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

Feminism

Deconstruction and poststructuralism

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

A joke

A speech

A science

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

Symbols

Modes

Myths

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

Symbols

Modes

Genres

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

Archetypes

Power of action

Symbols

Genres
14 Which of the following is NOT a mode?

High mimetic

Inferior

Ironic

Mythic
15 Which of the following is NOT a mode?

Superior

High mimetic

Romantic

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

Allegory

Metaphor

Motif

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

Prophesy

Monad

Image

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

Descriptive reference

Spiritual reference

Internal reference

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

Regional

Historical

Universal

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

Monad

Sign

Metaphor

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

Mythic

Ironic

High mimetic

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

Mythic

Ironic

Romantic

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

High mimetic

Mythic

Low mimetic

Ironic
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 symbol

A historical epoch

An archetype

A metaphor

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