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Anatomy of Criticism Quiz #1

1 Where was Norhtrop Frye born?
England

France

USA

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

New York

Toronto

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

Homer

William Blake

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

A minister

A professor

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

Postmodernism

New Criticism

Deconstruction
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?
Feminism

The GI Bill

The baby boom

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

A demonstration

An attempt

An argument
9 What supplanted Frye’s influence in the 1980s?
Deconstruction and poststructuralism

Queer theory

Libertarianism

Feminism
10 What does Frye advocate literary criticism be treated as?
A painting

A science

A joke

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

Modes

Myths

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

Modes

Biography

Symbols
13 With what is a “mode” primarily associated?
Power of action

Archetypes

Genres

Symbols
14 Which of the following is NOT a mode?
High mimetic

Inferior

Ironic

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

High mimetic

Romantic

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

Allegory

Metaphor

Sign
17 Which of the following is NOT associated with symbols?
Prophesy

Monad

Image

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

Spiritual reference

Descriptive reference

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

Universal

Regional

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

Sign

Metaphor

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

High mimetic

Ironic

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

Low mimetic

Ironic

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

High mimetic

Mythic

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

Mythic

Romantic

Ironic
25 Each mode is also associated with what?
A symbol

A historical epoch

An archetype

A metaphor

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