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Anatomy of Criticism Quiz #1

1 Where was Norhtrop Frye born?
France

USA

Canada

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

New York

Toronto

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

Homer

Shakespeare

William Blake
4 What did Frye originally train as?
A doctor

A librarian

A professor

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

New Criticism

Deconstruction

Feminism
6 What did the New Criticism focus on?
Biography

Psychoanalysis

Close reading

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

The GI Bill

The baby boom

Lower admissions standards
8 What does an “essay” mean in its original sense?
A demonstration

A proof

An argument

An attempt
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 speech

A painting

A science

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

History

Modes

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

Symbols

Genres

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

Power of action

Symbols

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

Mythic

Inferior

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

Low mimetic

High mimetic

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

Metaphor

Motif

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

Image

Prophesy

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

Spiritual reference

Descriptive reference

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

Regional

Universal

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

Monad

Archetype

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

Ironic

Romantic

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

Mythic

Romantic

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

High mimetic

Low mimetic

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

Romantic

Ironic

Mythic
25 Each mode is also associated with what?
An archetype

A historical epoch

A metaphor

A symbol

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