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Anatomy of Criticism Quiz #1

1 Where was Norhtrop Frye born?
England

Canada

USA

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

New York

Toronto

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

William Blake

Homer

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

A professor

A doctor

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

Feminism

New Criticism

Deconstruction
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?
Lower admissions standards

Feminism

The baby boom

The GI Bill
8 What does an “essay” mean in its original sense?
An attempt

An argument

A demonstration

A proof
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 painting

A speech

A science

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

History

Myths

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

Symbols

Biography

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

Archetypes

Power of action

Symbols
14 Which of the following is NOT a mode?
High mimetic

Mythic

Inferior

Ironic
15 Which of the following is NOT a mode?
Romantic

High mimetic

Low mimetic

Superior
16 Which of the following is NOT associated with symbols?
Motif

Metaphor

Sign

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

Motif

Prophesy

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

Internal reference

Spiritual reference

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

Biographical

Universal

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

Monad

Archetype

Sign
21 Gods are associated with which of the following modes?
Mythic

High mimetic

Ironic

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

Ironic

Mythic

Romantic
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?
Ironic

Low mimetic

Romantic

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

A historical epoch

A metaphor

An archetype

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