Anatomy of Criticism Quizzes

Anatomy of Criticism Quiz #1

1 Where was Norhtrop Frye born?

Canada

USA

France

England
2 Where did Frye do most of his teaching?

New York

Harvard

Toronto

Princeton
3 What was Frye’s first book about?

William Blake

Virginia Woolf

Homer

Shakespeare
4 What did Frye originally train as?

A professor

A librarian

A minister

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

Feminism

Postmodernism

Deconstruction

New Criticism
6 What did the New Criticism focus on?

History

Biography

Psychoanalysis

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

Lower admissions standards

The baby boom

The GI Bill

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

A proof

An attempt

An argument

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

Libertarianism

Feminism

Deconstruction and poststructuralism

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 …

Modes

Symbols

Myths

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

Genres

Biography

Symbols

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

Archetypes

Genres

Symbols

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

Ironic

Mythic

High mimetic

Inferior
15 Which of the following is NOT a mode?

Low mimetic

High mimetic

Superior

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

Motif

Metaphor

Sign

Allegory
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

Descriptive reference

Spiritual reference

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

Historical

Biographical

Regional

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

Monad

Archetype

Sign

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?

Romantic

Ironic

Low mimetic

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

Mythic

Low mimetic

High mimetic

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

Low mimetic

Ironic

Mythic

Romantic
25 Each mode is also associated with what?

A metaphor

An archetype

A symbol

A historical epoch

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