1 Where was Norhtrop Frye born? USA England France Canada 2 Where did Frye do most of his teaching? Toronto Princeton New York Harvard 3 What was Frye’s first book about? Shakespeare William Blake Virginia Woolf Homer 4 What did Frye originally train as? A librarian A professor A doctor A minister 5 What literary movement was most popular during Frye’s time? Deconstruction Feminism Postmodernism New Criticism 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? Feminism The GI Bill The baby boom Lower admissions standards 8 What does an “essay” mean in its original sense? An argument A proof An attempt A demonstration 9 What supplanted Frye’s influence in the 1980s? Queer theory Deconstruction and poststructuralism Libertarianism Feminism 10 What does Frye advocate literary criticism be treated as? A science A painting A speech A joke 11 Frye has a chapter on each of the following except … Symbols Modes Myths History 12 Frye has a chapter on each of the following except … Biography Genres Symbols Modes 13 With what is a “mode” primarily associated? Symbols Power of action Genres Archetypes 14 Which of the following is NOT a mode? High mimetic Mythic Inferior Ironic 15 Which of the following is NOT a mode? Romantic Superior Low mimetic High mimetic 16 Which of the following is NOT associated with symbols? Metaphor Allegory Sign Motif 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? Internal reference Descriptive reference Spiritual reference Imagery 19 Which of the following goes with a “monad”? Historical Regional Biographical Universal 20 Centripetal is to “motif” as centrifugal is to Monad Sign Archetype Metaphor 21 Gods are associated with which of the following modes? High mimetic Mythic Ironic Romantic 22 Heroes are associated with which of the following modes? Ironic Romantic Low mimetic Mythic 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 Mythic Ironic Low mimetic 25 Each mode is also associated with what? A metaphor An archetype A historical epoch A symbol