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Anatomy of Criticism Quiz #1

1 Where was Norhtrop Frye born?
Canada

France

USA

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

Harvard

New York

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

Homer

William Blake

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

A minister

A doctor

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

New Criticism

Feminism

Deconstruction
6 What did the New Criticism focus on?
History

Psychoanalysis

Biography

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

Lower admissions standards

The baby boom

The GI Bill
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?
Libertarianism

Feminism

Queer theory

Deconstruction and poststructuralism
10 What does Frye advocate literary criticism be treated as?
A science

A joke

A speech

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

Symbols

Myths

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

Symbols

Modes

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

Archetypes

Symbols

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

Ironic

High mimetic

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

Motif

Sign

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

Monad

Motif

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

Internal reference

Descriptive reference

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

Universal

Biographical

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

Monad

Archetype

Metaphor
21 Gods are associated with which of the following modes?
Ironic

Romantic

Mythic

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

Low mimetic

Mythic

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

Mythic

Ironic

High mimetic
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 metaphor

A historical epoch

An archetype

A symbol

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