This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Introductions > Overview > Literary Movements – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Movements Quiz 4 (24 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A slave narrative is a type of writing typically found in A) Naturalism. B) Romanticism. C) Rationalism. D) Realism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Realism. 2. Which literary movement was heavily influenced by the Civil Rights Movement and focused on being proud of being Black? A) Southern Renaissance 2. B) New York School of Poets. C) Black Arts Movement. D) Indian American Renaissance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Black Arts Movement. 3. Which of the following is NOT an example of Dark Romanticism (aka Gothic) A) Nature is dark and mysterious. B) Supernatural elements. C) Emotion speaks real truth. D) Optimism about human potential. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Optimism about human potential. 4. Identify the movement this is from: "A government of our own is our natural right, and when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he will become convinced that it is infinitely wiser and safer to form a constitution of our own in a cool deliberate manner, while we have it in our power, than to trust such an interesting event to time and chance." A) Puritanism. B) Rationalism. C) Romanticism. D) Realism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rationalism. 5. The Romantics viewed nature as A) Inherently good. B) Something sacred to go to to purify yourself. C) Complex and not easily understood. D) Hateful and spiteful against humanity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Something sacred to go to to purify yourself. 6. Naturalism stressed the survival of the fittest A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. Identify the movement this is from: "Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world." A) Puritanism. B) Romanticism. C) Rationalism. D) Realism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Romanticism. 8. The ..... opposed fiction because it was fake and full of lies. A) Puritans. B) Enlightenment Period. C) Modernists. D) Native Americans. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Puritans. 9. True or False:The Puritans fit well within the Age of Reason. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 10. This literary movement was focused on connecting to nature and reaching a higher spiritual level A) Transcendentalism. B) Puritans. C) Pluralism. D) Realism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transcendentalism. 11. The search for national identitiy upon gaining independence. A) Post-colonial. B) In yer face. C) Angry young men movement. D) Absurdism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Post-colonial. 12. Free will is the key and people should bear the consequences of their actions A) Deism. B) Modernism. C) Rationalism. D) Existentialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Existentialism. 13. Writers rejected literary conventions to find new ways to express the alienation they felt after returning from the Great War A) Realism. B) Romanticism. C) Modernism. D) Contemporary Period. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Modernism. 14. During which time period did American writers want to establish their own idea of what religion could and should mean? A) Colonialism and Puritanism. B) Revolution & Enlightenment. C) The Civil War. D) Transcendentalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Transcendentalism. 15. What literary period praised the use of logic and reason over the feelings? A) Rationalism. B) Romanticism. C) Transcendentalism. D) Dark Romanticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rationalism. 16. This sub-genre of realism focuses on specific geographical locations and the mannerisms of people who live there. A) Transcendentalism. B) Naturalism. C) Pluralism. D) Regionalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Regionalism. 17. Slave narratives exemplify the themes and values of this literary movement. A) Puritans. B) Realism. C) Modernism. D) Romanticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Realism. 18. The National Child Labor Committee was founded during the height of Realism and Naturalism in America. A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TRUE. 19. Where did the Romantics believe that you could best find God? A) Nature. B) Church. C) In books. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nature. 20. Devoted to representing regular, ordinary people in everyday life A) Revolutionary Movement. B) Stream of consciousness. C) Transcendentalism. D) Realism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Realism. 21. What did Thomas Paine argue in Common Sense? A) Common sense was required to understand who God was. B) The Enlightenment thinkers all had common sense. C) Common sense is critical to living a successful life. D) It was common sense that the American Colonies should be independent of Great Britain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It was common sense that the American Colonies should be independent of Great Britain. 22. Oliver Wendell Holmes belong to the A) New England Brahmins. B) The Local Colourists. C) The Trascendentalists. D) The Literary Comedians. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) New England Brahmins. 23. What literary period was the first used in America? A) Puritanism. B) Realism. C) Dark Romanticism. D) Romanticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Puritanism. 24. Which of the following is NOT a major theme in Victorian novels? A) Individual's place in society. B) The power of imagination. C) The human condition. D) Love and social position. 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