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Anatomy of Criticism Quiz #1

1 Where was Norhtrop Frye born?
France

England

USA

Canada
2 Where did Frye do most of his teaching?
New York

Toronto

Princeton

Harvard
3 What was Frye’s first book about?
Shakespeare

Homer

William Blake

Virginia Woolf
4 What did Frye originally train as?
A professor

A doctor

A librarian

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

Deconstruction

Feminism

New Criticism
6 What did the New Criticism focus on?
Biography

History

Psychoanalysis

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

The baby boom

Feminism

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

A proof

An argument

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

Libertarianism

Queer theory

Deconstruction and poststructuralism
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 …
Symbols

History

Myths

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

Genres

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

Ironic

High mimetic

Mythic
15 Which of the following is NOT a mode?
Low mimetic

Superior

Romantic

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

Motif

Allegory

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

Motif

Monad

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

Internal reference

Spiritual reference

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

Historical

Regional

Biographical
20 Centripetal is to “motif” as centrifugal is to
Monad

Archetype

Sign

Metaphor
21 Gods are associated with which of the following modes?
Mythic

Romantic

Ironic

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

Mythic

Ironic

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

High mimetic

Low mimetic

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

Low mimetic

Romantic

Mythic
25 Each mode is also associated with what?
A metaphor

An archetype

A symbol

A historical epoch

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