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Anatomy of Criticism Quiz #1

1 Where was Norhtrop Frye born?
England

France

Canada

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

New York

Toronto

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

William Blake

Shakespeare

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

A professor

A minister

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

Deconstruction

New Criticism

Postmodernism
6 What did the New Criticism focus on?
Close reading

Biography

History

Psychoanalysis
7 What was one cause of an increase of students in universities in the 1950s?
The baby boom

Lower admissions standards

The GI Bill

Feminism
8 What does an “essay” mean in its original sense?
An attempt

A proof

An argument

A demonstration
9 What supplanted Frye’s influence in the 1980s?
Deconstruction and poststructuralism

Feminism

Libertarianism

Queer theory
10 What does Frye advocate literary criticism be treated as?
A painting

A joke

A science

A speech
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 …
Symbols

Modes

Biography

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

Archetypes

Power of action

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

Ironic

Mythic

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

Romantic

Low mimetic

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

Sign

Allegory

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

Image

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”?
Universal

Biographical

Historical

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

Archetype

Sign

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

Romantic

High mimetic

Mythic
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?
Ironic

High mimetic

Low mimetic

Mythic
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 historical epoch

A metaphor

A symbol

An archetype

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