Anatomy of Criticism Quizzes

Anatomy of Criticism Quiz #1

1 Where was Norhtrop Frye born?

France

Canada

England

USA
2 Where did Frye do most of his teaching?

Toronto

Harvard

New York

Princeton
3 What was Frye’s first book about?

William Blake

Virginia Woolf

Homer

Shakespeare
4 What did Frye originally train as?

A doctor

A professor

A librarian

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

Deconstruction

New Criticism

Feminism

Postmodernism
6 What did the New Criticism focus on?

Biography

Psychoanalysis

Close reading

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

Lower admissions standards

The GI Bill

The baby boom

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

A proof

An attempt

A demonstration

An argument
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 painting

A joke

A science

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

Symbols

Modes

History

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

Genres

Symbols

Modes

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

Archetypes

Genres

Symbols

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

Inferior

High mimetic

Ironic

Mythic
15 Which of the following is NOT a mode?

High mimetic

Romantic

Superior

Low mimetic
16 Which of the following is NOT associated with symbols?

Motif

Metaphor

Sign

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

Image

Prophesy

Monad

Motif
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”?

Regional

Universal

Biographical

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

Metaphor

Sign

Monad

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

Mythic

High mimetic

Romantic

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

Ironic

Romantic

Mythic

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

Low mimetic

Ironic

Mythic

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

Mythic

Ironic

Low mimetic

Romantic
25 Each mode is also associated with what?

A symbol

An archetype

A metaphor

A historical epoch

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