This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Naturalism > Naturalism – Quiz 21 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Naturalism Quiz 21 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the alternatives is characteristic of Symbolism? A) Objectivity. B) Valuing the rules. C) Cult of form. D) Spirituality. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spirituality. 2. Who is Mastro-don Gesualdo, protagonist of the novel of the same name? A) A bricklayer enriched thanks to work and sacrifices. B) A disgraced Sicilian aristocrat. C) A bricklayer enriched thanks to the ransom obtained from the family of a woman he had kidnapped. D) A humble farmer, who emigrates to the North and makes his fortune. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A bricklayer enriched thanks to the ransom obtained from the family of a woman he had kidnapped. 3. Who, in opposition to Pritchard, argued that maths is nothing like morality? A) McBain. B) Hudson. C) Bentham. D) Kant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hudson. 4. In whom does the critical intention and use of the internal monologue stand out? A) Galdos. B) Clarion. C) Vicente Blasco. D) Pardo Bazan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Galdos. 5. The genre that best adapted to realism was..... A) The narrative. B) The lyric. C) The drama. D) Theater. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The narrative. 6. Which of the following authors is NOT a realist or naturalist? A) Guy de Maupassant. B) Gustave Flaubert. C) Charles Dickens. D) Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 7. E. Zola wrote a novel: A) Grandmother. B) Killer. C) Valentine. D) Kaspar Len the avenger. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Killer. 8. Movement that sought to explain human nature. A) Avant-garde. B) Realism. C) Romance. D) Naturalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Naturalism. 9. The concept of SURVIVAL is closely linked to ..... A) Transcendentalism. B) Naturalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Naturalism. 10. The three main characteristics of the realist novel about:imitating reality, objectivity, collective character. A) TRUE. B) Falso. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 11. It's just not a poem by Alberto de Oliveira A) Chinese vase. B) The statue. C) At Dinamene. D) Gregorian glass. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) At Dinamene. 12. Romantic prose was divided into: A) Indianist, Historical, Urban and Regionalist Novel. B) Indianist, Historical, Urban and Police Novel. C) Romantic and Psychological Novel. D) Realistic Romance, Historical Romance and Country Romance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Indianist, Historical, Urban and Regionalist Novel. 13. Naturalism is also known as A) Spiritualism. B) Environmentalism. C) Materialism. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Materialism. 14. Parnassianism occurred simultaneously with A) Modernism. B) Romanticism. C) Realism. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Realism. 15. Called the "prophets" in the Hebrew and Arabic term founded by Paul Serusier A) The Serusiers. B) The Nabis. C) The Prophetees. D) The Protestors. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Nabis. 16. Naturalism will apply the following paradigm to human behaviors: A) Rationalism. B) Natural selection. C) Complexity theory. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Natural selection. 17. The Naturalist Novel..... A) Subjective and sentimentalist. B) Idealistic. C) Unlikely and romantic. D) Lowest and harshest aspects of society. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lowest and harshest aspects of society. 18. This movement emerged in Europe in the second half of the 19th century: A) Romance. B) Realism. C) Naturalism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Realism. 19. Who said "To the victor, the potatoes" ? A) Policarpo Quaresma. B) Quincas Borba. C) Bras Cubas. D) Bentinho. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quincas Borba. 20. What are the bases of positivism? A) Observation, development of hypotheses, experimentation, analysis of results and formulation of laws and theories. B) The observation of reality and consciousness. C) Observation of reality and experimentation. D) The difference between Islam and Christianity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Observation of reality and experimentation. 21. Natural law is not a certain morality but a way of..... A) Establish morality. B) Value morality. C) Reach morality. D) Adoption of morality. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Establish morality. 22. The ideals of romantic thought are based on: A) Reason, free thought, and the venting of passions. B) The truth. the objective, and the expression of feelings. C) Subjectivity, imagination and freedom of feelings. D) Subjectivity, the idealization of nature and reason. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Subjectivity, imagination and freedom of feelings. 23. Which quote from the story "The Gun" is NOT an example of emotional abuse? A) "Nothing is nothing , unless we ourselves turn that nothing into something. I wish we saw everything, always, with the light, although sad, feeling that the fall of that foliage on the sand gives us.". B) " an unloaded revolver shot me, not in the head, but in the middle of the heart ". C) "If we went out together, he was careful that people would look at me or say, in passing, any of the nonsense that is said to young women; if he went out alone, he would be jealous of what I was doing at home, of the people who came to see me; if I went out alone, the misgivings, the assumptions were even more disgraceful ". D) "But since I love you, unfortunately, more every day, and I love you without tranquility, with anxiety and fever, I warn you that I have thought of a way so that there are no questions, no chimeras, no tears between us, and once "For everyone to know what our future is going to be Reinaldo opened the drawer of the small embedded cabinet where he kept his tobacco, his watch, and his handkerchiefs, and showed me a large revolver, a sinister weapon.". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Nothing is nothing , unless we ourselves turn that nothing into something. I wish we saw everything, always, with the light, although sad, feeling that the fall of that foliage on the sand gives us.". 24. Marxism rejects capitalism and anarchism manifests the freedom of people A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 25. Brazilian naturalism began with the publication of A) Pension House. B) The tenement. C) O mulato. D) Dom Casmurro. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) O mulato. 26. Finish Mill's quote:we have not only all the proof which that case admits or, but all which it is possible to require, that ..... A) That people desire happiness. B) Happiness is good. C) That Utilitarianism is correct. D) That higher pleasures are more valuable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Happiness is good. 27. Which of these authors did NOT belong to the literary current of Verismo? A) Luigi Capuana. B) Giovanni Pascoli. C) Giovanni Verga. D) Federico De Roberto. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Giovanni Pascoli. 28. What were the realists against? A) Against classicism. B) Against romance. C) Neither nor. D) Both. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both. 29. The Industrial Revolution was during the century: A) 18. B) 19. C) 20. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 19. 30. What genre was best adapted in Spain? A) Narrative. B) Comedy. C) Theater. D) Lyrical. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Narrative. 31. What does the expression Cycle of the Vanquished refer to? A) To an unfinished literary project, which involved the writing of five novels set in different social contexts. B) To a group of short stories, featuring poor people as protagonists. C) To the set of all Verga's novels, united together-on the model of the cycle of Zola's novels-by the presence of the same families and the same characters. D) To the author's conception, according to which the condition of the oppressed is repeated cyclically with the same forms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To an unfinished literary project, which involved the writing of five novels set in different social contexts. 32. Select the statement that can be considered correct regarding realism, A) He developed the nationalist novel, exalting the way of life of the new Brazilian society that was emerging at the end of the 19th century. B) He sought to analyze social and human problems with objectivity and critical sense. C) Despite his critical intentions, he ended up apologizing for the bourgeois family and Catholicism. D) He developed literature focused mainly on rural problems, denouncing the abandonment and poverty of the interior of Brazil. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He sought to analyze social and human problems with objectivity and critical sense. 33. What is the means that realists use to criticize the contradictions of society? And its main characteristic? A) The novel/ the clothing. B) The novel/verisimilitude. C) The essay/objectivity. D) The theater/ the costume. E) Poetry/evocation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The novel/verisimilitude. 34. Gil Vicente was a great author from which literary school? A) Trouvadorism. B) Rebirth. C) Humanism. D) Arcadism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Humanism. 35. (PUC) Select the alternative that contains the correct statement about Naturalism in Brazil. A) Naturalism, due to its scientific principles, considered literary narratives examples of demonstrating theses and ideas about society and man. B) Naturalism used elements of the wild nature of 19th century Brazil to defend theses about the defects of primitive culture. C) The valorization of rude nature seen in Arcadian poets continues in the naturalistic vision of the 19th century, which takes the decadent nature of tenements to prove the evils of miscegenation. D) Naturalism in Brazil has always been linked to the beauty of the landscapes of cities and the interior of Brazil. E) Naturalism in the 19th century in Brazil spread a scientific and hermetic language in literature, causing literary texts to be read only by intellectuals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Naturalism, due to its scientific principles, considered literary narratives examples of demonstrating theses and ideas about society and man. 36. What explains human activities and experiences in terms of material objects and natural laws? A) Moral naturalism. B) Pluralism. C) Methodological naturalism. D) Physical naturalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Physical naturalism. 37. In the sentence: "Red had red hair because he was a mischievous and bad boy" is present A) The artifice of impersonality. B) The artifice of regression. C) The artifice of estrangement. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The artifice of estrangement. 38. To write a novel, the authors used: A) The new literary forms proposed by positivism. B) The creation of new possible worlds that leads them to explore human psychology. C) Research and documentation, to create a context exactly the same as the surrounding reality. D) Monotonous and boring characters that reflect the needs of society. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Research and documentation, to create a context exactly the same as the surrounding reality. 39. What is naturalism in literature characterized by? A) Historical settings. B) Focus on depicting life as it truly is. C) Idealized narratives. D) Romanticized portrayals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Focus on depicting life as it truly is. 40. What did naturalists consider themselves? A) Poets. B) Scientists. C) Both. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scientists. 41. Who was the playwright of The Power of Darkness? A) Tom Cooke. B) Leo Tolstoy. C) Andre is the first. D) Barbara Jennings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Leo Tolstoy. 42. Which of these characteristics is not typical of realism? A) Omniscient narrator. B) Accurate descriptions. C) Gimmicky language. D) Abundance of dialogues and monologues. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gimmicky language. 43. It aimed to prepare the aristocratic youth for the life of a gentleman in the world of affairs. A) Catholic Counter Reformation. B) Literary Realism. C) Social Realism. D) Reformation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Social Realism. 44. What is the new social class in the 19th century? A) The proletariat. B) The aristocracy. C) The peasantry. D) The bourgeoisie. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The proletariat. 45. TRUE or FALSE:In many works of Naturalism fiction, human characters are regarded as "human beasts" ..... in other words, just like any other animal following its instincts. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 46. According to naturalism, how are people's virtues and defects transmitted? A) Through friendship. B) Through genetics. C) Through love. D) Through unlove. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Through genetics. 47. "The second phase of Romanticism in Brazil became known as Evil of the century or Ultraromanticism" . This statement is: A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 48. Who are the most important Parnassian writers? A) Leconte de Lisle, Hugo, Heredia. B) Gautier, Leconte de Lisle, Heredia. C) Gautier, Chateaubriand, Flaubert. D) Leconte de Lisle, Baudealire, Gautier. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gautier, Leconte de Lisle, Heredia. 49. Naturalism takes the ideas of the A) Proletariat. B) Subjectivism. C) Realism. D) Industrial world. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Realism. 50. WHAT IS THE GOAL OF NATURALISM? A) The objective is to narrate the behavior of human beings according to their social environment. B) The objective is to explain the behavior of human beings, by describing their social environment to verify the laws that govern human behavior. C) None of the above. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The objective is to explain the behavior of human beings, by describing their social environment to verify the laws that govern human behavior. 51. (PUC-SP) Highlight the alternative that characterizes Machado's novels from the realistic phase. A) Psychological analysis of the characters, correct language, technique of short chapters and conversation with the reader. B) Negativism, break in the linearity of the narrative, exaggerated sentimentality. C) Short sentence, predominance of 3rd person narrator, mystical vision of life. D) Pessimism, long chapter technique, word selection aiming for maximum precision. E) Narrative with an informal and open structure, ironic vision of life, commitment to the romantic heritage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Psychological analysis of the characters, correct language, technique of short chapters and conversation with the reader. 52. Often looks at the underbelly of society, the grim and even the downtrodden to find human truths. A) Realism. B) Naturalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Naturalism. 53. Naturalism as an artistic direction was born in France from classical.....? A) Realism. B) Pessimism. C) Disappointment in society and looking for a way out. D) Surrealism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Realism. 54. REALISM AND NATURALISM-Main works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky A) "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina". B) "David Copperfield" y "Oliver Twist". C) "Crime and Punishment" and "The Brothers Karamazov". D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "Crime and Punishment" and "The Brothers Karamazov". 55. What does the expression "narrative in media res" mean? A) A narrative that starts at the end. B) A narrative that begins in the middle of the story. C) A narrative that has no narrator. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A narrative that begins in the middle of the story. 56. "The leased field, which had previously covered the family's potato needs, had been terminated weeks ago, without Lenen having been able to find a replacement for it." How will the problem of the missing field be solved and what consequences does this have for them? Family? A) Signalman Thiel has to buy a new field, but as a result he no longer has the money to pay a babysitter for his son, so he is run over by the train while he and Lene are working. B) Loth leaves Lene, whereupon she kills herself. C) The signalman is given a field near his workplace, but Lene doesn't look after Tobias while she's working in the field and he gets run over by the train. D) Klaus and Lene argue about who is to blame for the fact that they no longer have a field and their son, who runs away from the argument, is run over by a passing train. With the money they received from the lawsuit against the driver, Klaus and Lenen can now afford a new field. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The signalman is given a field near his workplace, but Lene doesn't look after Tobias while she's working in the field and he gets run over by the train. 57. What kind of woman was Nana supposed to be? A) The most famous prostitute in town. B) The oldest old woman in town. C) The most famous woman in town. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The most famous prostitute in town. 58. Select the alternative that characterizes symbolist aesthetics. A) Cult of contrast, which opposes elements such as love and suffering, life and death, reason and faith, in an attempt to reconcile antagonistic poles. B) Search for balance and simplicity in Greco-Roman models, through, above all, a simple but noble language. C) Exploration of echoes, assonance, alliteration, in an attempt to enhance the sound of language, bringing it closer to music. D) Cult of nativist sentiment, which makes primitive man and his civilization a symbol of spiritual, political, social and literary independence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exploration of echoes, assonance, alliteration, in an attempt to enhance the sound of language, bringing it closer to music. 59. How many novels does "Les Rougon-Macquart" consist of? A) 2. B) 20. C) 30. D) 24. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 20. 60. Book that marked the beginning of realism: A) The mulatto. B) O crime of Father Amaro. C) Madame Bovary. D) Dom Casmurro. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Madame Bovary. ← 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