Anatomy of Criticism Quizzes

Anatomy of Criticism Quiz #1

1 Where was Norhtrop Frye born?

Canada

England

France

USA
2 Where did Frye do most of his teaching?

Toronto

New York

Princeton

Harvard
3 What was Frye’s first book about?

Shakespeare

William Blake

Virginia Woolf

Homer
4 What did Frye originally train as?

A professor

A doctor

A minister

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

Feminism

New Criticism

Deconstruction

Postmodernism
6 What did the New Criticism focus on?

Psychoanalysis

Close reading

Biography

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

The baby boom

Feminism

The GI Bill

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

An argument

A demonstration

A proof

An attempt
9 What supplanted Frye’s influence in the 1980s?

Feminism

Libertarianism

Deconstruction and poststructuralism

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

A science

A speech

A joke

A painting
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 …

Genres

Modes

Biography

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

Symbols

Archetypes

Genres

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

Mythic

Ironic

High mimetic

Inferior
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

Metaphor

Sign
17 Which of the following is NOT associated with symbols?

Motif

Image

Prophesy

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

Internal reference

Imagery

Descriptive reference

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

Biographical

Regional

Universal

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

Metaphor

Monad

Sign

Archetype
21 Gods are associated with which of the following modes?

Mythic

High mimetic

Ironic

Romantic
22 Heroes are associated with which of the following modes?

Romantic

Low mimetic

Ironic

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

Low mimetic

Mythic

High mimetic

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

Ironic

Romantic

Low mimetic

Mythic
25 Each mode is also associated with what?

An archetype

A historical epoch

A metaphor

A symbol

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