This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Naturalism > Naturalism – Quiz 20 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Naturalism Quiz 20 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The characters of realistic novels..... A) We only know about them their external appearance and their way of dressing. B) The woman takes center stage. C) They reflect conflicts that affect the reader. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The woman takes center stage. 2. For naturalists, just as all animals adapt to an environment, society is the environment to which human beings adapt. A) TRUE. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 3. First writer to position himself as the protagonist of his own work. A) Dante. B) Giotto. C) Enrique Sunson. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dante. 4. Enlightenment-When did the Revolution begin? A) June 12, 1788. B) July 14, 1789. C) September 16, 1794. D) December 19, 1799. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) July 14, 1789. 5. What is true for naturalism: A) One can influence one's destiny. B) One cannot influence one's fate too much. C) One is not influenced by where one lives. D) It follows on from romanticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) One cannot influence one's fate too much. 6. Cats are good pets. A) Opinion. B) Fact. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Opinion. 7. REALISM AND NATURALISM-What are the basic principles of REALISM? A) The art of reproducing life. B) Interest in psychology. C) The social criticism. D) The descriptive style. E) All of the above are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) All of the above are correct. 8. In his novels Zola talks about life A) Of the Parisian proletarians. B) Of the French peasants. C) Of the Parisian nobles. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Of the Parisian proletarians. 9. In his realistic works, Verga tries to represent the people in an objective and impersonal way. A) FALSE. B) VERO. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) VERO. 10. Others who found themselves facing hard times during this period were many ..... who had come to America in search of freedom and opportunity. A) Labor unions. B) Immigrants. C) Refugees. D) Freed slaves. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Immigrants. 11. What is the name of the most characteristic narrator of the realist novel? A) Subjective narrator. B) Omniscient narrator. C) Character narrator. D) Witness narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Omniscient narrator. 12. To what does Moore compare 'good' to show that we know it when we see it but we cannot define it. A) Happiness. B) Tension. C) Yellow. D) Love. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Yellow. 13. In Portugal, realism emerged with a strong criticism of romantic authors who still insisted on the idea of a heroic generation as seen in romanticism A) CERTO. B) WRONG. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) CERTO. 14. In realism the genre stood out A) Epic. B) Dramatic. C) Narrative. D) Lyrical. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Narrative. 15. What does the "x" stand for in the formula art=nature-x? A) Reality and reality. B) Child labor, alcoholism, exploitation. C) Material, production and influence of the artist. D) Censorship. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Material, production and influence of the artist. 16. What is the central theme of the realist novel? A) The mythology. B) Culture and love. C) The society of the time. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The society of the time. 17. What themes are typical of Realism? A) Analysis of the character of the characters. B) Economic concerns. C) Description of nature:orchards, beaches, mountains. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 18. Name the name of a naturalist writer? A) Balzac. B) Guide. C) Zola. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Zola. 19. The historical fact that marked the beginning of Realism in Europe is called: A) The Partitions of Poland. B) The Unification of Italy. C) The French Revolution. D) Cold War. E) The Treaty of Versailles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The French Revolution. 20. The characters of realistic theater are: A) FICTIONAL CHARACTERS. B) COMMON AND CURRENT PEOPLE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) COMMON AND CURRENT PEOPLE. 21. The naturalist is characterized by A) Apply the scientific method in literature. B) Apply the holistic method in the language. C) Apply the method of experimental science in literature. D) Apply the method of experimental science in language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Apply the method of experimental science in literature. 22. Realism is a literary reaction contrary to..... A) Romance. B) Renaissance. C) Baroque. D) Naturalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romance. 23. How does Clodio find out that Ildara had plans to escape? A) Find the money that Ildara had hidden. B) Read his diary. C) He hears him talking to the abbot's sister. D) He sees clothes that Ildara tries to hide. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He sees clothes that Ildara tries to hide. 24. Shows the lives of the characters to be observed by the reader, like rats in the lab causing the curiosity of scientists ..... A) Baroque. B) Naturalism. C) Realism. D) Neoclassicism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Naturalism. 25. The naturalistic works..... A) They describe the most unpleasant aspects of reality. B) They show us reality as it is, from the author's perspective. C) They try to escape from reality. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They describe the most unpleasant aspects of reality. 26. As for Parnassian poetry, it is correct to say that it is characterized by A) Seek a language capable of suggesting reality, making use of symbols, images, metaphors, synesthesia, as well as sound and chromatic resources, all with the purpose of expressing the inner, intuitive, antilogical and antirational world. B) Cultivate contempt for urban life, highlighting a taste for the countryside; raise the Ideal of a simple life, integrated with nature; contain elements of Greco-Latin culture in the poems; present spiritual balance, rationalism. C) Show interest in religious themes, reflecting spiritual conflict, morbidity as a way of accentuating the tragic meaning of life, in addition to the constant use of figures of speech and refined terms. D) Intending to be universal, using objective language, which seeks to contain feelings and formal perfection. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Intending to be universal, using objective language, which seeks to contain feelings and formal perfection. 27. Who wrote the short story Ane-Mette? A) J. P. Jacobsen. B) George Brandes. C) Henrik Ibsen. D) Henrik Pontoppidan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Henrik Pontoppidan. 28. The tone of many of the writings of the Realism era was often A) Sarcastic. B) Formal. C) Evil. D) Matter-of-fact. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Matter-of-fact. 29. The theory that defends the idea that human beings are conditioned by their social environment and by their genetic and family inheritance is called: A) Realism. B) Romance. C) Modernism. D) Naturalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Naturalism. 30. Curriculum under Naturalism has no scope for: A) Classroom and timetables. B) Textbooks and exams. C) Curricula. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 31. For Bentham, 'right' is reducible to ..... A) Preferences. B) Pain. C) Pleasure. D) The majority. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pleasure. 32. How many phases did Romanticism have in Brazil? A) 4. B) 2. C) 3. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 33. What two qualities distinguish Juan Valera's narrative? A) Idealized reality and careful language. B) Stark reality and simplistic language. C) It does not deal with conflicts related to religion. D) Simple and imprecise description of the characters. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idealized reality and careful language. 34. He was a French writer, known as the leader of the naturalism literary movement..... A) Vicente Blasco. B) Thomas Hardy. C) Horacio Quiroga. D) Emile Zola. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Emile Zola. 35. Of the texts cited, it is not just a novel A) The secret cause. B) Quincas Borba. C) Dom Casmurro. D) The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The secret cause. 36. Who wrote "La Peau de chagrin" ? A) Balzac. B) Stendhaal. C) Flaubert. D) Maupassant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Balzac. 37. Natural things as creatures of God. belonging to: A) Dante. B) Giotto. C) Enrique Sunson. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Enrique Sunson. 38. People knew that they were missing out on the prosperity that others were enjoying, and it made them angry. Workers began forming ..... A) Labor unions. B) Stretch marks. C) Riots. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Labor unions. 39. The distinction between natural law and positive law corresponds to the distinction between mandatory law and law..... A) Peremptory. B) Punitive. C) Mandatory. D) Pure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Peremptory. 40. Which of these works is an auto sacramental? A) The great theater of the world. B) Punishment without revenge. C) The manger dog. D) Don Quixote I and II. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The great theater of the world. 41. From what movement did Naturalism emerge? A) The romanticism. B) The realism. C) Baroque. D) Illustration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The realism. 42. Who saw religion as "disillusionment?" A) Charles Darwin. B) Karl Marx. C) Thomas Edison. D) Sigmund Freud. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Karl Marx. 43. What literary movement refers to the perfection of form, aestheticism and cultured language? A) Realism. B) Romance. C) Neoclassic. D) Modernism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Modernism. 44. Objectivity is to realism what subjectivity is to realism. A) Romanticism. B) Arcadism. C) Parnassianism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romanticism. 45. Read the characteristics and select the appropriate alternative. "Emphasis on the most animalistic side of man:hunger, instinct, the uncivilized part, sexuality, the zoomorphization of the characters. Determinism:the individual is no longer a subject, but a figure in history, the result of environmental influences. Man is understood as a product of natural laws. The works from this period bring to light topics such as sexual kinks, addictions, illnesses, incest, adultery. Preference for everyday themes, prioritizing the relationships and experiences of the lower classes." A) Symbolism. B) Naturalism. C) Romanticism. D) Modernism. E) Arcadism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Naturalism. 46. The media material commonly used in painting, and made from linen or cotton is called..... A) Mosaic. B) Palette. C) To eat. D) Canvas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Canvas. 47. The most important type of literary work during the Naturalismus period was..... A) Drama. B) Poetry. C) Epic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Drama. 48. Which literary movement is associated with POVERTY AND DEPRIVATION? A) Transcendentalism. B) Naturalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Naturalism. 49. Which of the following philosophers is commonly associated with the philosophy of naturalism? A) Rene Descartes. B) Thomas Hobbes. C) Friedrich Nietzsche. D) Immanuel Kant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thomas Hobbes. 50. Who becomes White Fang's first master? A) Gray Beaver. B) Three Eagles. C) Beauty Smith. D) Mit-Sah. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gray Beaver. 51. According to Naturalism, human reason is grounded in what? A) Science. B) Ethics. C) Human Nature. D) Core Commitments. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Human Nature. 52. Pursued to represent reality by imitating it ..... A) Romanticism. B) Naturalism. C) Baroque. D) Realism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Realism. 53. Satirical news is news A) Real news. B) News that is taken from real headlines but twisted to be funny. C) Fake news. D) Accidentally wrong news. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) News that is taken from real headlines but twisted to be funny. 54. When do we date naturalism in Norway? A) The 1930s. B) The 1850s. C) The 1890s. D) The 1880s. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The 1880s. 55. Images of a concrete and personalized life A) Medieval art. B) Divine Comedy. C) Giotto's naturalistic art. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Giotto's naturalistic art. 56. Universal brotherhoodIt is a characteristic of: A) Franciscans. B) Naturist art. C) Divine Comedy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Franciscans. 57. The realist artist's attention is focused on..... A) The individuals who make up European societies. B) The upper social classes. C) The lower social classes. D) Societies, understood as a conflictive group. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Societies, understood as a conflictive group. 58. Where was naturalism born? A) Italy. B) Germany. C) France. D) Spain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) France. 59. They are characteristics of Naturalism..... A) Bourgeois characters with a comfortable life. B) Ugliness and tremendousness recreate the most sordid aspects of society. C) Very pleasant and sophisticated bourgeois environments. D) Science-related environments. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ugliness and tremendousness recreate the most sordid aspects of society. 60. Why does the father start to worry when his son does not come home? A) Because he is hungry and wants to eat the animals that his son hunted. B) Because his son doesn't come back at the time he should, and that's out of character for him. C) Because you hear someone shouting stressed. D) Because you don't see birds coming out of the forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because his son doesn't come back at the time he should, and that's out of character for him. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesNaturalism Quiz 1Naturalism Quiz 2Naturalism Quiz 3Naturalism Quiz 4Naturalism Quiz 5Naturalism Quiz 6Naturalism Quiz 7Naturalism Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books