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Anatomy of Criticism Quiz #1

1 Where was Norhtrop Frye born?
USA

France

Canada

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

Princeton

New York

Harvard
3 What was Frye’s first book about?
William Blake

Shakespeare

Virginia Woolf

Homer
4 What did Frye originally train as?
A minister

A professor

A doctor

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

Feminism

New Criticism

Deconstruction
6 What did the New Criticism focus on?
Biography

History

Psychoanalysis

Close reading
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?
An argument

An attempt

A demonstration

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

Queer theory

Feminism

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

A joke

A painting

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

Myths

History

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

Symbols

Genres

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

Archetypes

Symbols

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

Inferior

Mythic

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

Superior

Low mimetic

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

Motif

Sign

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

Image

Monad

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

Internal reference

Spiritual reference

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

Universal

Biographical

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

Archetype

Monad

Metaphor
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?
Romantic

Low mimetic

Mythic

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

High mimetic

Mythic

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

Mythic

Low mimetic

Romantic
25 Each mode is also associated with what?
A historical epoch

A metaphor

An archetype

A symbol

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