This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Naturalism > Naturalism – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Naturalism Quiz 9 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The narrative experience takes place inside a boarding school; this novel is A) The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas. B) Quincas Borba. C) The tenement. D) A Athenaeum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A Athenaeum. 2. Indicates which themes are typical of Realism A) Analysis of the character of the characters. B) Description of nature:orchards, village beaches, family mountains. C) Economic concerns. D) All of the above. E) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 3. In <>, the poet compares the storm with nature with all the following symbols EXCEPT A) A supernatural being. B) A car. C) A giant. D) A bull. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A supernatural being. 4. What causes the scandal and social rejection towards the protagonist of "La Regenta" ? A) Who doesn't go to mass. B) Who marries an older man. C) Who poses for an artist. D) Who commits adultery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Who commits adultery. 5. Realism arises historically in A) Latin America mid-19th century. B) Africa mid-19th century. C) France mid-19th century. D) Europe in the 19th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) France mid-19th century. 6. Naturalism was born A) In Italy. B) In Greece. C) In England. D) In France. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In France. 7. How can we define realism in art? A) It is characterized by representing people's ideals in a way that is pleasing to the reader. B) It is characterized by objectively and meticulously representing reality and people's daily lives. C) It is characterized by representing people exaggerating their physical features. D) It is characterized by representing people's lives in such a way that they are the protagonists regardless of whether their reality is different. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is characterized by objectively and meticulously representing reality and people's daily lives. 8. What is one of the themes addressed in the realist novel? A) Travels in the time. B) Love without difficulties. C) Religion. D) Science fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Religion. 9. Why is Jacinta taking care of Fortunata's son? A) The baby is Jacinta's and not Fortunata's. B) Jacinta stole the baby. C) Fortunata did not want to stay with him and abandoned him outside Jacinta's house. D) Fortunata is about to die from an illness and asks Jacinta to take care of the baby. E) Jacinta does not know that he is Fortunata's son. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fortunata is about to die from an illness and asks Jacinta to take care of the baby. 10. Main characteristics of Realism A) -Verisimilitude-Sentimentalism-Determinism-Rhetorical language. B) -Nationalism-Positivism-Customs. C) -Verisimilitude-Language appropriate to social class-Omniscient narrator. D) -Positivism-Dismal places-Adultery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) -Verisimilitude-Language appropriate to social class-Omniscient narrator. 11. Characteristics of the realistic novel A) Implausibility and escapist. B) Verisimilitude, Contemporaneity, Omniscient Narrator. C) Presence of supernatural elements. D) They do not claim to be historically rigorous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verisimilitude, Contemporaneity, Omniscient Narrator. 12. Realism is the literary school that opposes Arcadism. A) WRONG. B) RIGHT. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) WRONG. 13. Leopoldo Alas was an important realist and naturalist novelist, what is his most popular pseudonym? A) Choppitto. B) Claire's. C) Clarinet. D) Clarion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Clarion. 14. In Romanticism there is an attraction to certain characters such as the pirate, Don Juan and Prometheus because..... A) His rebellion against the established order. B) The loneliness in which they live, which makes them feel the romantic "evil of the century.". C) Their power of attraction, given the mystery that surrounds them. D) His freedom, his idea of genius, his individualism, his energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His rebellion against the established order. 15. What is the branch of ethics that puts moral theories to the test in real world situations? A) Normative. B) Situation ethics. C) Non-Naturalism. D) Applied ethics. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Applied ethics. 16. The trumpet player, who wears a tuxedo, stands in front. A) Adjective. B) Adverb. C) Noun. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adjective. 17. What must readers find out in order to understand "An Occurrence on Owl Creek Bridge" ? A) How the characters act. B) The setting. C) The mood. D) The order of the events. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The order of the events. 18. What is NOT a theme of Naturalism? A) Poverty. B) Determinism. C) Social Environment. D) Detalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Detalism. 19. It is the aim of the education that gives the child full opportunity to express or reveal his hidden qualities. A) Development of Individuality. B) Preparation for Struggle Life. C) Self-Expression. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Self-Expression. 20. Current in which the human being is not free, but is determined by the laws of biological inheritance. A) Baroque. B) Naturalist. C) Romance. D) Realist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Naturalist. 21. Which technique used by realists does this definition correspond to:''the narrator is reduced to the same level as the characters he talks about, eliminating all cultured terminologies that could in some way highlight the author/narrator in a clear way in relation to the text" A) Estrangement. B) Regression. C) Impersonality. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Regression. 22. Which of the following industries was rapidly growing and becoming more successful at the tie of the Regional Literary movement? A) The lumber industry. B) The sewing industry. C) The agricultural industry. D) The publishing industry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The publishing industry. 23. In naturalism, the characters are subject to: A) Communism. B) The king. C) Religion. D) The destiny. E) Inheritance and environment. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Inheritance and environment. 24. With which work did Verga embark on the path of Verism? A) The Pleasure (published 1888-89). B) Il Fu Mattia Pascal (published in 1904). C) Rosso Malpelo (first published in 1878). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rosso Malpelo (first published in 1878). 25. What activity opens the story "An Occurrence on Owl Creek Bridge." A) A man is about to be hanged. B) Union soldiers are fixing a bridge. C) Troops are laying railroad tracks. D) A Southern spy is put on trial. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A man is about to be hanged. 26. The protagonist class of realistic novels is: A) The aristocracy. B) The clergy. C) The bourgeoisie. D) The plain town. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The bourgeoisie. 27. What was the main objective of the realist literary movement? A) Represent reality by imitating it. B) Exalt feelings of nostalgia, sadness, melancholy. C) See and interpret yourself as exaggerated realism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Represent reality by imitating it. 28. By moderate positivist ideology Bobbio understands that according to which the laws must be obeyed as such because the....., by itself, guarantees the realization of the specific value of the right. A) Validity. B) Sociedad. C) Justice. D) Legality. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Legality. 29. What is a character's Super Objective? A) What the character wants in the act?. B) What the character wants in the whole play?. C) What the character wants in the scene?. D) What the character wants in "life" ?. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) What the character wants in "life" ?. 30. VERISM indicates A) A literary current that developed at the end of the 18th century in Italy. B) A group of writers led by Carducci. C) A literary current that is not interested in the southern question. D) A literary current that derives from French naturalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A literary current that derives from French naturalism. 31. What type of economy was imposed? A) Communist. B) Capitalist. C) Mixed. D) Law of supply and demand. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Capitalist. 32. "At dusk, and when the gunboat had not yet stopped, we could distinguish some ships that passed by like ghosts, some with half mast, others completely dismasted." dismasted refers to: A) Fruit trees. B) Many dry trees. C) Set of trees and hangers of a ship. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Set of trees and hangers of a ship. 33. A belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty. A) Fact. B) Opinion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Opinion. 34. Cantico al sol belongs to: A) San Francisco. B) Giotto. C) Dante. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) San Francisco. 35. What is a theme of Rima LII? A) The power of God in human relationships. B) Passionate and impossible love. C) The relationship between father and son. D) The relationship between love and nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Passionate and impossible love. 36. What is the most characteristic literary genre of Realism? A) Narrative. B) Rehearsal. C) Lyrical. D) Theater. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Narrative. 37. Zola says that the novelist (who writes) has two facets A) Rooted and uprooted. B) Observer and analyzer. C) Experimenter and analyzer. D) Observer and experimenter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Observer and experimenter. 38. What is the key difference between naturalism and a biblical worldview? A) Naturalism prioritizes empirical evidence, while a biblical worldview prioritizes divine revelation. B) Naturalism views morality as objective, while a biblical worldview views it as subjective. C) Naturalism rejects the existence of a supernatural realm, while a biblical worldview affirms it. D) Naturalism believes in the existence of a soul, while a biblical worldview does not. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Naturalism rejects the existence of a supernatural realm, while a biblical worldview affirms it. 39. Realism is an artistic and cultural movement that follows the..... A) Neoclassicism. B) Middle Ages. C) Romance. D) Realism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Romance. 40. What is the objective of Naturalism? A) Change in European mentality. B) Explain human behaviors. C) The exaltation of subjectivity, feelings and states of mind over objectivity and rationalism. D) A society based on equality. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Explain human behaviors. 41. Realism is defined: A) It is the trend that values the similarity between forms of aesthetic representation and reality. B) Trend that emphasizes subjectivity and emotions. C) Trend that goes beyond reality. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is the trend that values the similarity between forms of aesthetic representation and reality. 42. The global method for which it was used A) Reading and writing. B) Vision and writing. C) Motor skills. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reading and writing. 43. What are Jack London's novels mostly written about? A) Love. B) Horror. C) Adventure. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adventure. 44. Naturalism derives from realism and takes its conceptions to the extreme. A) TRUE. B) Falso. C) It has nothing to do with it. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 45. Chekhov's The Apothecary:Where is the apothecary located? A) In the city center. B) At the end of the city. C) In the residential area of the city. D) In the old part of the city. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) At the end of the city. 46. The protagonist of the Regent is A) Marianela. B) Ana Ozores. C) Madame Bovary. D) Ana Berlanga. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ana Ozores. 47. What is the fundamental belief of a biblical worldview? A) The natural world was created by God and is governed by divine laws. B) The natural world is all-encompassing and can be explained by natural laws and processes. C) The supernatural realm exists, including God and divine beings. D) Reality is solely composed of matter and energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The supernatural realm exists, including God and divine beings. 48. What is the key philosophy behind a Biblical worldview perspective for Chemistry? A) The rejection of the supernatural. B) Religious texts as a source of truth. C) The primacy of the natural world. D) The existence of a divine realm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The existence of a divine realm. 49. What is the center of interest of literature? A) Write a Star Wars novel. B) Write fantastically. C) Describe the feelings. D) The representation of reality and its conflicts. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The representation of reality and its conflicts. 50. The historical context of the Naturalist movement is A) 1st world war and War of Canudos. B) Industrial revolution and scientific advances. C) Industrial revolution and theory of psychoanalysis. D) Theory of Determinism and World War II. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Industrial revolution and scientific advances. 51. Which of the following is a characteristic of Regionalism Literature? A) Setting/Geographical Location. B) Rhyme Scheme. C) Stories in a series. D) Stories about trains. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Setting/Geographical Location. 52. How does the naturalistic text Karen's Christmas end? A) The mother and the child are allowed to move in with the policeman. B) Mora is taken care of by the authorities, but loses the child. C) Mother and child die. D) Mother and child can celebrate Christmas in the house where the mother worked. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mother and child die. 53. According to Naturalism, what is every man first and foremost? A) Environment and culture. B) Matter and instinct. C) Religion and morality. D) Consciousness and intellect. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Matter and instinct. 54. What literary movement comes before realism? A) Illustration. B) Naturalism. C) Modernism. D) Romance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Romance. 55. What, according to Aristotle, is humanity's greatest natural quality? A) Courage. B) Cleverness. C) Happiness. D) Rationality. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rationality. 56. In which period did Naturalism take place? A) In the late 19th-early 20th century. B) In the late 18th-early 19th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In the late 19th-early 20th century. 57. What word describes a faithful representation of reality in literature? A) Alliteration. B) Vernacular. C) Characterization. D) Verisimilitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Verisimilitude. 58. Painters who use objects from people around them such as children, wives, parents, siblings or lovers are the theme of painting..... A) Man with himself. B) Humans with Other Humans. C) Humans and the Natural Surroundings. D) Humans with Surrounding Objects. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Humans with Other Humans. 59. Under the Reconstruction, African Americans gained the right to what? A) Vote. B) Free speech. C) Property. D) Bear arms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vote. 60. Listed below are a series of characteristics of literary movements. Only one of them does not refer to Naturalism. What it is? A) Application of the experimental method. B) Idealization of nature. C) Search for scientific objectivity. D) Biological determinism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idealization of nature. ← 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