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Anatomy of Criticism Quiz #1

1 Where was Norhtrop Frye born?
France

USA

Canada

England
2 Where did Frye do most of his teaching?
Princeton

Toronto

Harvard

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

Shakespeare

Homer

William Blake
4 What did Frye originally train as?
A librarian

A doctor

A minister

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

New Criticism

Postmodernism

Deconstruction
6 What did the New Criticism focus on?
History

Psychoanalysis

Biography

Close reading
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 demonstration

A proof

An argument

An attempt
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 joke

A science

A speech

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

History

Modes

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

Biography

Symbols

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

Genres

Symbols

Archetypes
14 Which of the following is NOT a mode?
Ironic

High mimetic

Mythic

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?
Sign

Allegory

Metaphor

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

Monad

Image

Prophesy
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”?
Universal

Historical

Biographical

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

Archetype

Sign

Monad
21 Gods are associated with which of the following modes?
High mimetic

Romantic

Mythic

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

Mythic

Romantic

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

Mythic

Low mimetic

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 historical epoch

A metaphor

A symbol

An archetype

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