This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Naturalism > Naturalism – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Naturalism Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Indifferent force acting on the lives of human beings. A) Realism. B) Naturalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Naturalism. 2. This captain of industry was a renowned oil tycoon A) Rockefeller. B) Carnegie. C) Twain. D) Vanderbilt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rockefeller. 3. What do realistic works of art stand out the most? A) Animals. B) Untamed, uncontrolled, exuberant, wild, nocturnal and mysterious nature. C) Women. D) Feeling of not fullness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Women. 4. Taking into account its characteristics, Realism is: A) An existentialist philosophical school. B) A literary movement that seeks freedom. C) A way of life in which the ideal prevails. D) A literary movement that gives importance to the description of objective reality. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A literary movement that gives importance to the description of objective reality. 5. The religious protagonist of the Regent is A) Fermin de Pas. B) Alvaro Messiah. C) Victor Quintanar. D) Juan Valera. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fermin de Pas. 6. Who wrote Los pazos de Ulloa? A) Galdos. B) Clarion. C) Valera. D) Pardo Bazan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pardo Bazan. 7. WHAT IS THE MAIN CHARACTERISTIC OF CUBISM ART? A) DYNAMISM VISION. B) DEPICTION OF NATURE. C) MUTE COLORS. D) GEOMETRIC FIGURES. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) GEOMETRIC FIGURES. 8. In naturalism the characters were determined by A) The biological inheritance. B) Your freedom. C) Your religion. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The biological inheritance. 9. Which analogy best describes God's relation to the universe in Deism? A) Puppeteer/Puppet. B) Maker/Clay. C) Cause/Effect. D) Clock-maker/Clock. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Clock-maker/Clock. 10. What is the logic of naturalism? A) Deontic. B) Epistemic. C) Simple induction. D) Logic of science. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simple induction. 11. What is the greatest definition of Parnassianism? A) Lima lara. B) Description of Objects. C) Art for Art's sake. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Art for Art's sake. 12. Which well-known psychoanalyst particularly influenced Arthur Schnitzler, the author of "Leutnant Gustl" ? A) Karl Gustav Jung. B) Wilhelm Reich. C) Alfred Adler. D) Sigmund Freud. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sigmund Freud. 13. The belief of DETERMINISM is closely linked to ..... A) Transcendentalism. B) Naturalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Naturalism. 14. Which novel is considered to be Jack London's masterpiece? A) The Iron Heel. B) The Call of the Wild. C) The Sea-Wolf. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Call of the Wild. 15. Which work is considered one of the manifestos of French naturalism? A) The human comedy, by Balzac. B) The experimental novel, by Zola. C) Madame Bovary, di Flaubert. D) The Charterhouse of Parma, by Stendhal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The experimental novel, by Zola. 16. Realism predominated A) The religion. B) The reason. C) The feelings. D) The didactic purpose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The reason. 17. Diamonds are the hardest substance on Earth. A) Opinion. B) Fact. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fact. 18. It is also Parnassian, but is not part of the triad A) Francisca Julia. B) Alberto de Oliveira. C) Olaf Bilac. D) Raimundo Correia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Francisca Julia. 19. Machado in his poems A) I used a lot of symbols. B) He used a lot of metaphors. C) He used a cultured and brilliant vocabulary. D) He used a lot of allegories. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I used a lot of symbols. 20. CALLED THE "PROPHETS" IN THE HEBREW AND ARABIC TERM, WERE A SYMBOLIST, CULT-LIKE GROUP FOUNDED BY PAUL SERUSIER A) THE PROPHETEES. B) THE NABIS. C) THE PROTESTORS. D) THE SERUSIERS. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) THE NABIS. 21. One example of the development of the flow of naturalism which is supported by advances in visual and measurement technology is A) Increasingly accurate depiction of human and animal anatomy. B) The depiction of darkness and light is increasingly developing. C) More accurate depiction of point of view or perspective. D) Detailed depiction. E) Depictions that display certain meanings. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Increasingly accurate depiction of human and animal anatomy. 22. Romanticism promoted the defense of nationalist ideals. A) TRUE. B) Falso. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 23. Who is the most famous writer in the Naturalism? A) Roque Dalton. B) Charles Darwin. C) Emile Zola. D) William shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Charles Darwin. 24. Indicates what the main themes of Realism are. A) Freedom. B) Description of environments and characters. C) Amor. D) Evasion in time and space. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Description of environments and characters. 25. What does Uism reduce 'good' to? A) The majority. B) Pain. C) Pleasure. D) Utility. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pleasure. 26. Objective, detached narration is a characteristic of A) Naturalism. B) Realism. C) Romanticism. D) Transcendentalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Naturalism. 27. According to Deists, why is history linear? A) Because god is impersonal. B) Everything was determined at creation. C) Because of human reason. D) Evolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Everything was determined at creation. 28. In what period are the works set? A) Contemporary age. B) Middle Ages. C) In what period are the works set?. D) Modern age. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Contemporary age. 29. Who said that literature should put problems under debate? A) Henrik Ibsen. B) Camilla Collet. C) George Brandes. D) Knut Hamsun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) George Brandes. 30. Bobbio understands by..... that current that admits the distinction between natural law and positive law and maintains the supremacy of the former over the latter. A) Natural law. B) Juspositivism. C) Positivism. D) Naturalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Natural law. 31. Tends to be objective, critical and rational; the most important works were in painting, sculpture and architecture ..... A) Neoclassicism. B) Realism. C) Romanticism. D) Classicism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Neoclassicism. 32. Thoreau's experiment that showed that "all good things are wild and free" was an example of ..... A) Transcendentalism. B) Naturalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transcendentalism. 33. In Machado de Assis's realistic work, the characters are analyzed in a way..... and therefore they are analyzed in a..... A) Psychological-outside in. B) Biological-inside out. C) Biological-outside in. D) Psychological-inside out. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Psychological-inside out. 34. The concept of determinism is the opposite of which of the following concepts? A) Free will. B) Environment. C) Fate. D) Instincts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free will. 35. Why is Juan Valera considered a realist? A) Because it recreates contemporary environments. B) Because he explained and spread the naturalist movement. C) Because among its characters men stand out. D) Because her most famous man was Pepita "La Larga". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because it recreates contemporary environments. 36. During the second half of the 19th century, the theater ..... A) It is dominated by high comedy. B) It is dominated by naturalistic theater. C) Continues with baroque trends. D) Is nonexistent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is dominated by high comedy. 37. The new social class of poor workers during the Industrial Revolution made many people from the countryside move to the cities, they were called: A) Royals. B) Bourgeois. C) Proletariat. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Proletariat. 38. When is The Call of the Wild published? A) 1902. B) 1901. C) 1903. D) 1900. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1903. 39. Realist writers aim to present and analyze the reality of: A) Objective and critical way. B) Cultured and technical way. C) Subjective and conceptual way. D) Informal and vulgar manner. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Objective and critical way. 40. The historical novel is characterized by: A) For the narration of historical events that occurred during the 18th century. B) For introducing stories about fictional characters in a real historical context. C) For the presentation of completely invented events. D) For the narration of events that perfectly correspond to historical events. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) For introducing stories about fictional characters in a real historical context. 41. What is the central claim of the Frenchman Emile Zola in his literary theoretical work "Le roman experimental" ? A) The fate of people is predetermined by heredity, race and social environment. B) Humanity is falling into the abyss through alcoholism, brutality, crime, unhappy marriages and illegitimate children. C) The strongest survives. D) The novel must be experimental in nature to be considered a novel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The fate of people is predetermined by heredity, race and social environment. 42. In their most representative poems, Parnassian poets cultivated: A) The simplicity of Nature, the musicality of sweet words and the confession of feelings. B) The rare vocabulary, the impeccable metering and the precious rhymes. C) The game of antitheses, the anguish of psychological division and the theme of ephemeral life. D) The free verse, the only occasional rhyme and the themes directly linked to everyday life. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The rare vocabulary, the impeccable metering and the precious rhymes. 43. The originator of naturalism is: A) Charles Dickens. B) Emile Zola. C) Eugene Cambaceres. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emile Zola. 44. What did Stanislavski believe the purpose of theatre was? A) To entertain audiences. B) To reflect real life in performances. C) To educate audiences. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To reflect real life in performances. 45. What is the name of the protagonist of the play, the landlady? A) Gabriela Elisondo. B) Ruth Zola. C) Ana Ozores. D) Emilia Jimenez. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ana Ozores. 46. Enumerative Induction says we should trust it because it has always worked. What is this an example of? A) Slippery slope. B) To the man. C) Prestige jargon. D) Begging the question. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Begging the question. 47. Knowledge is obtained through the sciences which study nature. A) Axiology of naturalist. B) Epistemology of naturalist. C) Foundation of naturalist. D) Metaphysics of naturalist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epistemology of naturalist. 48. What art style is being illustrated? A) Cubism. B) Futurism. C) Art Nouveau. D) Fauvism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cubism. 49. In the following verses from the poem Antiphon, by the symbolist poet Cruz e Sousa:O White, white forms, Clear forms Of moonlight, of snow, of mist!.....O Vague, fluid, crystalline forms.....Incense of the censers das aras.....Which of the characteristics below did we NOT notice in the verses read? A) Religiosity. B) Alliteration (repetition of letters and sounds). C) Synesthesia (sensations). D) Musicality. E) Death as a theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Death as a theme. 50. In this movement, humans are in control of their destiny and are superior to their circumstances. A) Regionalism. B) Naturalism. C) Realism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Realism. 51. What is decorum? A) The modesty of the protagonist before her lover. B) The scenery that accompanied the work. C) Character status correspondence. D) What today is called artistic decoration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Character status correspondence. 52. What historical event gave rise to the development of realist literature? A) The second Industrial Revolution. B) The war of the independence. C) The capitalism. D) The revolution of 1868. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The revolution of 1868. 53. The title of the drama which depicts the misery of workers due to the industrial revolution, is entitled..... A) The rats. B) The Weavers. C) The Selicke family. D) Master Oelze. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Weavers. 54. The Ultimate reality according to Naturalism is A) Spiritual. B) Material. C) Spiritual and goodness. D) Natural beauty. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Material. 55. WHAT IS NATURALISM? A) It is an artistic style, especially literary, related to realism, based on reproducing reality with documentary objectivity in all its aspects. B) It is an artistic style, especially literary, related to realism, based on reproducing subreality with documentary objectivity in all its aspects. C) None of the above. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is an artistic style, especially literary, related to realism, based on reproducing reality with documentary objectivity in all its aspects. 56. Realism was prominent between the following years ..... A) 1860-1890. B) 1690-1790. C) 18920-1950. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1860-1890. 57. The attitude of the artist in Realism and Naturalism A) Identify with bourgeois values. B) Identify with the privileged class. C) Reject bourgeois society and flee to distant and exotic cultures. D) Reject the aristocratic class. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Identify with bourgeois values. 58. What characteristics do the characters of Naturalism present? A) Sophisticated people. B) Bourgeois people. C) Poor people, workers and lower class. D) Sentimental people. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poor people, workers and lower class. 59. What is the recurring theme in realistic works? A) Idealization of love. B) Adultery. C) Analysis of characters belonging to less favored social classes. D) Evasion from reality. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adultery. 60. How are Realism and Naturalism different? A) Realism describes the social reality of the moment and naturalism aspects of nature. B) Realism uses an omniscient narrator and Naturalism uses a first-person narrator. C) Realism is objective, Naturalism emphasizes subjectivity and freedom. D) Realism objectively describes reality; Naturalism focuses on marginal realities. 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