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Anatomy of Criticism Quiz #1

1 Where was Norhtrop Frye born?

USA

Canada

England

France
2 Where did Frye do most of his teaching?

Harvard

Princeton

Toronto

New York
3 What was Frye’s first book about?

William Blake

Homer

Shakespeare

Virginia Woolf
4 What did Frye originally train as?

A professor

A minister

A librarian

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

Feminism

Deconstruction

New Criticism

Postmodernism
6 What did the New Criticism focus on?

Psychoanalysis

Biography

Close reading

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

The baby boom

Feminism

Lower admissions standards

The GI Bill
8 What does an “essay” mean in its original sense?

An attempt

A demonstration

A proof

An argument
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 joke

A speech

A painting
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

Modes

Symbols

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

Genres

Archetypes

Power of action

Symbols
14 Which of the following is NOT a mode?

Mythic

Inferior

High mimetic

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?

Allegory

Motif

Sign

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

Motif

Prophesy

Image

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

Imagery

Descriptive reference

Spiritual reference

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

Historical

Biographical

Universal

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

Archetype

Monad

Metaphor

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

Ironic

Mythic

High mimetic

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

Romantic

Low mimetic

Mythic

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

High mimetic

Ironic

Mythic

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

Mythic

Low mimetic

Ironic

Romantic
25 Each mode is also associated with what?

A symbol

A historical epoch

An archetype

A metaphor

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