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Anatomy of Criticism Quiz #1

1 Where was Norhtrop Frye born?
England

Canada

France

USA
2 Where did Frye do most of his teaching?
Harvard

New York

Princeton

Toronto
3 What was Frye’s first book about?
Virginia Woolf

Homer

Shakespeare

William Blake
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?
Postmodernism

New Criticism

Deconstruction

Feminism
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

Feminism

The GI Bill

The baby boom
8 What does an “essay” mean in its original sense?
An attempt

An argument

A demonstration

A proof
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 speech

A science

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

History

Myths

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

Modes

Genres

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

Archetypes

Symbols

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

High mimetic

Ironic

Inferior
15 Which of the following is NOT a mode?
Romantic

Low mimetic

Superior

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

Allegory

Sign

Metaphor
17 Which of the following is NOT associated with symbols?
Monad

Image

Motif

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

Imagery

Internal reference

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

Regional

Historical

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

Monad

Sign

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

Mythic

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

Mythic

High mimetic

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

Mythic

Ironic

Romantic
25 Each mode is also associated with what?
An archetype

A symbol

A historical epoch

A metaphor

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