This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Overview > Literary Movements – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Movements Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Meaningless of the world is also a topic in the theatre. Waiting for Godot is an example A) Absurdism. B) Post modernism. C) Realism. D) Angry young men. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Absurdism. 2. Why is Beowulf still relevant and widely read today? A) It has been adapted into modern forms of media. B) It addresses universal themes that are still relevant today. C) It is a required reading in schools. D) It is the only surviving epic from the Dark Ages. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It addresses universal themes that are still relevant today. 3. What was the dominant form of literature during the Victorian Period? A) Drama. B) Poetry. C) Novel. D) Short story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Novel. 4. Which movement below focuses on representing life as it is? A) Post-Modernism. B) Early Settlers. C) Romanticism. D) Realism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Realism. 5. The belief that all natural objects in the universe, such as plants, animals, trees, and rocks, have spirits. This is called A) Shamanism. B) Creationism. C) Animism. D) Totemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Animism. 6. What literary period focused in nature and usually it was the main character of the story? A) Realistic. B) Dark romantic. C) Romantic. D) Naturalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Naturalism. 7. What type of music is associated with the Harlem Renaissaince? A) Classical. B) Spiritual. C) Jazz. D) Reggae. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jazz. 8. How does the "lost generation" compare to the Harlem Renaissance in terms of cultural movements and artistic expressions? A) They both rejected traditional values and embraced new forms of expression. B) They both focused on the theme of human progress and advancement. C) They both emphasized the importance of religion and spirituality. D) They both celebrated the Victorian era style of writing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They both rejected traditional values and embraced new forms of expression. 9. What did the Romantics value more? A) Youthful, innocent, intuitive. B) Well-read, educated, sophistication. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Youthful, innocent, intuitive. 10. The belief that one's life is predetermined by God was common in the time of the ..... A) Colonists. B) Puritans. C) Native Americans. D) Americans. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Puritans. 11. Women's rights and women writers came to light during this literary movement. A) Enlightenment. B) Romanticism. C) Realism. D) Native Americans. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Realism. 12. From this period in American Literature, several words emerged, which included: "self-realization, " "self-expression, " and "self-reliance. A) The Romantic Period. B) The Enlightenment Period. C) Native American Period. D) The Harlem Renaissance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Romantic Period. 13. This type of poetry gives us the joy and capturing the moment, seizing the day. A) Lyric. B) Cavalier poetry. C) Metaphysical poetry. D) Epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cavalier poetry. 14. Which American movement's main literature consisted of creation myths? A) Modernism. B) Native Americans. C) Enlightenment. D) Puritans. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Native Americans. 15. Which of the following is NOT a type of Colonial Literature? A) Traditional Literature. B) Native American Literature. C) Revolutionary Literature. D) Puritan Literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Traditional Literature. 16. What was the impact of the Industrial Revolution on women's work? A) It created more job opportunities for women. B) It had no impact on women's work. C) It decreased job opportunities for women. D) It made women's work more difficult. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It created more job opportunities for women. 17. Which movement is primarily oral tradition? A) Puritanism. B) American Rennaissance. C) Native American. D) Post-modernism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Native American. 18. We live in this ..... A) Realism. B) Contemporary Period. C) Modernism. D) Romanticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Contemporary Period. 19. Which literary movement was heavily influenced by the writers in Europe and focused on fictional horror and themes of death, fear, and love? American writers rebelled against logic and reason, and focused more on imagination, emotion, and nature? A) Late Romanticism & Gothic. B) Realism. C) Transcendentalism. D) Revolution & Enlightenment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Late Romanticism & Gothic. 20. True or False:The Romantics were inspired by supernatural tales and myths. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 21. Identify the movement this is from: "Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof ..... " A) Realism. B) Puritanism. C) Romanticism. D) Rationalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Puritanism. 22. It's derivation of realism A) Transcendentalists. B) Local colourists. C) New England Brahmins. D) Naturalists. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Naturalists. 23. America saw a huge education boom and the birth of many colleges during this literary movement period. A) Modernism. B) Realism. C) Romanticism. D) Enlightenment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Enlightenment. 24. The purpose of writing during Realism was to A) Instruct and publish. B) Entertain and argue. C) Instruct and entertain. D) Entertain and persuade. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Instruct and entertain. 25. This is the most current literary movement that focuses on diversity and representation. A) Modernism. B) Pluralism. C) Post-modernism. D) Realism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pluralism. 26. Realism brought an emphasis on ..... to America A) Emotion and imagination. B) Human and animal behavior. C) Logic and reason. D) Faith and religion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Human and animal behavior. 27. Knowledge is reached by reasoning A) Realism. B) Existentialism. C) Naturalism. D) Rationalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rationalism. 28. American Romanticism refers to romantic love. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 29. Which of the following is NOT a value of the Romantic period? A) Reason. B) Imagination. C) Intuition. D) The Senses. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reason. 30. The writing from this time period focused oon mystery and the supernatural. A) Dark Romanticism. B) Post Modernism. C) Contemporary. D) Colonialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dark Romanticism. 31. Romanticism is ..... A) Desolate, remote settings and violent stories. B) An attitude toward nature, humanity, and society emphasizing freedom and individuality. C) A philosophy that says that truth is reached through love over reason. D) Events and social conditions that are presented as they really are, with no idealization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An attitude toward nature, humanity, and society emphasizing freedom and individuality. 32. What was the impact of compulsory national education during the Victorian Period? A) It had no impact on literacy rates. B) It decreased literacy rates. C) It caused a decrease in education opportunities. D) It increased literacy rates. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It increased literacy rates. 33. Rationalism is also known as the Age of Reason or Enlightenment A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 34. What is the purpose of the oral tradition? A) To teach and learn. B) To teach and explain. C) To entertain. D) To distract enemies. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To teach and explain. 35. All of the following are Puritan writers EXCEPT: A) John Proctor. B) Anne Bradstreet. C) Edward Taylor. D) Jonathan Edwards. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Proctor. 36. What kind of people did the New England Brahmins include? A) Laboor class. B) Hindu people. C) The elite of Massachussets. D) Free thinkers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The elite of Massachussets. 37. Who wrote the poem Hope is a Thing with Feathers? A) WB YEATS. B) Emily Dickinson. C) Edgar Allan Poe. D) Walt Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emily Dickinson. 38. All of the following are tenets of Romanticism EXCEPT: A) Authors valued the individual in their writing. B) Authors looked to nature for inspiration. C) Authors feature just themes of love. D) Authors valued emotion and the imagination in their writing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Authors feature just themes of love. 39. ..... is the literary movement that celebrates African American art, literature, and culture. A) Realism. B) The Houston Rebirth. C) The Modern Movement. D) The Harlem Renaissance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Harlem Renaissance. 40. A period when individuals began to question Puritan beliefs about God's grace as the determining factor in their lives. They began to reason within themselves about the importance of moral choice. A) The Age of Reason. B) Puritanism. C) Naturalism. D) The Romantic Period. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Age of Reason. 41. Puritan writings: A) Portrayed humans as flawed. B) Were about individualism. C) Were formal and disciplined. D) Were sermons or religious writings. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Were sermons or religious writings. 42. The following are all characteristics of Realism EXCEPT: A) It is only nonfiction. B) Portrays ordinary settings. C) Uses rhetorical devices. D) Explores key social issues. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is only nonfiction. 43. How is nature portrayed in Romantic literature? A) As a source of fear and danger. B) As a source of inspiration and healing. C) As a mechanical and rational force. D) As a source of conflict and violence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) As a source of inspiration and healing. 44. This movement emphasized how instinct and environment affect human behavior. Strongly influenced by Charles Darwin's ideas, they believed that the fate of humans is determined by forces beyond their control. They are ..... A) Darwinists. B) Naturalists. C) Romanticists. D) Realists. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Naturalists. 45. Identify the movement this is from: "Shaking off from my spirit what must have been a dream, I scanned more narrowly the real aspect of the building. Its principal feature seemed to be that of an excessive antiquity. The discoloration of ages had been great. Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves. Yet all this was apart from any extraordinary dilapidation." A) Puritanism. B) Romanticism. C) Rationalism. D) Realism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Romanticism. 46. Born from the debate of "new light" and "old light" A) Transcendentalists. B) Local colourists. C) Literary comedians. D) New Englands Brahmins. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transcendentalists. 47. Rebirth of African American arts A) Beat Movement. B) Postmodernism. C) Realism. D) Harlem Renaissance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Harlem Renaissance. 48. After war, especially lads who are not that old and resent the contemporary world. A) In yer face theatre. B) Existentialism. C) Absurdism. D) Angry young Men. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Angry young Men. 49. The Rationalists believed that people were able to ..... A) Pray alone. B) Ruin a society. C) Perfect themselves. D) Get a job. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Perfect themselves. 50. The modern times are getting more and more difficult day by day and people get alienated and isolated. WWII A) Closet drama. B) Modernism. C) Post-modernism. D) Deism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Post-modernism. 51. What is a characteristic of Romanticism poetry? A) Animals. B) Traveling. C) Use of nature. D) Romance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Use of nature. 52. Characters in Realist writing were A) Extraordinary people. B) Ordinary people. C) Known citizens. D) Famous people. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ordinary people. 53. Which movement most emphasized science? A) Harlem Renaissance. B) Beat. C) Enlightenment. D) Naturalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Enlightenment. 54. The writers during the Rationalism period valued religion over everything else. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 55. Realists built their plots and characters around A) Ordinary Life. B) Legends. C) The Supernatural. D) Mysteries. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ordinary Life. 56. What literary period expressed the language and traditions of only one region? A) Naturalism. B) Romanticism. C) Transcendentalism. D) Regionalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Regionalism. 57. Rationalist writings were: A) Heavily influenced by religion. B) About the common man. C) Very political. D) About dark and mystical encounters. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Very political. 58. Which piece shows how God's hand is present in every human action? A) "The Crucible". B) "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge". C) "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God". D) "Spunk". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God". 59. Giving voice to the people on the margins ofthe society A) Modernism. B) Post-modernism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Post-modernism. 60. What is the role of imagination in Romantic literature? A) It is seen as a lesser faculty compared to reason. B) It is used to convey religious themes. C) It is considered the ultimate creative power. D) It is used to create realistic characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is considered the ultimate creative power. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIntroductions QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesLiterary Movements Quiz 1Literary Movements Quiz 3Literary Movements Quiz 4English Literature (1) QuizEnglish Literature QuizLiterary Genres QuizOverview Of English Literature Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books