Anatomy of Criticism Quizzes

Anatomy of Criticism Quiz #1

1 Where was Norhtrop Frye born?

Canada

England

USA

France
2 Where did Frye do most of his teaching?

Toronto

New York

Princeton

Harvard
3 What was Frye’s first book about?

Shakespeare

William Blake

Virginia Woolf

Homer
4 What did Frye originally train as?

A minister

A professor

A librarian

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

Postmodernism

New Criticism

Deconstruction

Feminism
6 What did the New Criticism focus on?

Close reading

Psychoanalysis

Biography

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

Lower admissions standards

Feminism

The GI Bill

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

A demonstration

An attempt

A proof

An argument
9 What supplanted Frye’s influence in the 1980s?

Feminism

Deconstruction and poststructuralism

Queer theory

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

A joke

A speech

A painting

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

Myths

History

Symbols

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

Genres

Biography

Modes

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

Symbols

Archetypes

Genres

Power of action
14 Which of the following is NOT a mode?

Ironic

Inferior

Mythic

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

Low mimetic

Romantic

Superior

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

Sign

Allegory

Metaphor

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

Motif

Image

Monad

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

Imagery

Descriptive reference

Internal reference

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

Universal

Historical

Biographical

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

Archetype

Sign

Metaphor

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

Ironic

Mythic

Romantic

High mimetic
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?

Ironic

Mythic

High mimetic

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

Romantic

Ironic

Mythic

Low mimetic
25 Each mode is also associated with what?

A historical epoch

A symbol

A metaphor

An archetype

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