This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Romantic > Romanticism – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Romanticism Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In what way were the Romantic authors different from their predecessors? A) They were much more focused on general society than the individual. B) They used their imaginations to create potential government laws. C) They felt freed from restraints and rules in literature. D) They were abolitionists. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They felt freed from restraints and rules in literature. 2. What did Emerson value? A) Emerson valued individualism, self-worth, and embracing one's strengths and instincts. B) Emerson valued his house, wife, and children. C) Emerson valued the thoughts of others. D) Emerson valued what the literature of his day revealed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emerson valued individualism, self-worth, and embracing one's strengths and instincts. 3. In the Romantic Age Britain was under: A) The House of Stuart. B) The House of Tudor. C) The House of Hanover. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The House of Hanover. 4. Alexander Pushkin was a Realistic A) Author. B) Artist. C) Architect. D) Singer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Author. 5. Which of the words in the following sentence should be capitalized?"who was the first roman catholic president of the united states?" A) Who; Roman; Catholic; United; States. B) Who; Catholic; United; States. C) Who; Roman; President; United; States. D) Who; Roman; Catholic; President; United; States. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Who; Roman; Catholic; United; States. 6. Time of the Industrial Revolution: A) 1700s. B) 1600s. C) 1980s. D) 1500s. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1700s. 7. Writers after 1800 were not widely read. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 8. "The gentle giant jumped in jubilation" is an example of which type of figurative language? A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Personification. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 9. The use of words to mean something different than what they appear to mean is called: A) Dramatic Irony. B) Situational Irony. C) Verbal Irony. D) Residual Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verbal Irony. 10. The most popular type of poetry was called A) Sonnets. B) Lyrical Ballads. C) Limericks. D) Epics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lyrical Ballads. 11. Blake saw the French Revolution as the denial of freedom since it provoked violence and terror. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 12. The pieces of music created for piano during the romantic period were structured in A) Binary form (AB). B) Rondo form (ABACADA ). C) Ternary form (ABA). D) Theme and variations form (A, A1, A2, A3 ). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ternary form (ABA). 13. When did the Romanticism, Gothics, Dark Romanticism period end? A) 1860. B) 1960. C) 1840. D) 1830. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1860. 14. What is a symbol of hypocrisy and hidden evil? A) Parts of Mrs. Walker wrapped in the apron. B) Tom's agreement with the devil. C) The flourishing trees that are rotten to the core. D) The Walker's valuables. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The flourishing trees that are rotten to the core. 15. How many symphonies did Beethoven write? A) Only 5. B) More than 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) More than 5. 16. The Romantic period is called such because all the literature in this time period is A) Based on love triangles and characters' relationships with each other. B) Based on idealism or a sense of how things should be. C) Based on candlelight dinners and kind words. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Based on idealism or a sense of how things should be. 17. During which period did English Romantic poetry reach its zenith? A) Mid-19th century. B) Late 18th century. C) Late 19th century. D) Early 19th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Early 19th century. 18. Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass is considered what type of poetry? A) Epic poetry. B) Ballad. C) Villanelle. D) Verse Drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epic poetry. 19. Romanticism took place during ..... A) 1705-1755. B) 1895-1945. C) 1785-1835. D) 1800-1850. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1800-1850. 20. Which of the following was NOT a value of Transcendentalism? A) Freedom. B) Puritanism. C) Self-reliance. D) Optimism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Puritanism. 21. Based on "Walden, " which of the following ideas would Thoreau value most? A) Tradition. B) Unceasing work ethic. C) Frugality. D) Connection to nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Connection to nature. 22. Large instrumental forms made use of the enlargement of the orchestra with a stronger use of wind and percussion instruments. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 23. What was Thoreau's opinion about connecting to Nature and people? A) Thoreau believed that some people were good and nature sometimes helped us be a better person. B) Thoreau believed the people were to be avoided and nature got in the way. C) Thoreau believed that everyone should stop and smell the roses. D) Thoreau believed that people had an inherent goodness and that nature brought us closer to spirituality. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thoreau believed that people had an inherent goodness and that nature brought us closer to spirituality. 24. William Blake was born in A) 1759. B) 1758. C) 1760. D) 1757. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1757. 25. Which of the following is an opinion held by American Romantic writers? A) Cities are centers of corruption and ugliness. B) European literature has no traditions worth considering. C) Westward expansion is dangerous. D) Ordinary readers do not appreciate Romantic ideals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cities are centers of corruption and ugliness. 26. What does transitory mean in paragraph 2? Poetry is indeed something divine. It is at once the center and circumference of knowledge; it is that which comprehends all science, and that to which all science must be referred. It is at the same time the root and blossom of all other systems of thought ..... Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of the will. A man cannot say, "I will compose poetry." The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises from within, like the color of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed, and the conscious portions of our natures areunprophetic either of its approach or its departure ..... A) Unsteady. B) Changing. C) Temporary. D) Brilliant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Temporary. 27. Combination of old style and domestic Architecture. A) High Victorian. B) Early Victorian. C) Queen Anne Style. D) Eclectic Style. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eclectic Style. 28. In "Young Goodman Brown, " Goodman Brown is compelled to continue into the forest toward the devilish gathering when ..... A) He sees a ribbon from his wife Faith's cap. B) He hears the minister talking. C) The older man gives him a staff. D) He sees his neighbor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He sees a ribbon from his wife Faith's cap. 29. Which one below did Romanticism not emphasize on? A) Emotion. B) Reasons. C) Imagination. D) Subjectivity of approach. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reasons. 30. The raven symbolizes A) Life. B) Plague. C) Death. D) Happiness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Death. 31. Name the movement that reflected deep interest both in nature and in the thoughts and feelings of the individual: A) Realism. B) Impressionism. C) Enlightenment. D) Romanticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Romanticism. 32. Our math teachers, Mr. Woock and Mr. Stamstad, would fit well into the American Romantic literary movement because of their rational and logical thinking? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 33. In MLA format, where should the "Works Cited" page be placed in a research paper? A) Before the title page. B) After the abstract. C) At the end of the paper, after the main body of text and before any appendices or supplemental material. D) It is not required. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) At the end of the paper, after the main body of text and before any appendices or supplemental material. 34. What is a famous structure that represents the architecture of engineers? A) Crystal Palace. B) Torre Eiffel. C) Vittorio Emanuele II Gallery. D) Paris Opera. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Torre Eiffel. 35. ..... are to poetry as paragraphs are to prose. A) Meters. B) Lines. C) Stanzas. D) Couplets. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanzas. 36. Which vocabulary word would characterize the Romantics feelings towards the growing industrialized cities? A) Primitivism. B) Introspection. C) Individualism. D) Disillusionment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Disillusionment. 37. Romanticism authors thought that people were better off following ..... than relying on ..... A) Intuition, Reason. B) Science, Religion. C) Religion, Science. D) Science, Intuition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Intuition, Reason. 38. What is the moral of "The Devil and Tom Walker" ? A) Life is short; enjoy it while you can. B) Money/greed are the root of all evil. C) Love conquers all. D) Treat animals with respect. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Money/greed are the root of all evil. 39. Who wrote Civil Disobedience? A) Henry David Thoreau. B) James Russell Lowell. C) Oliver Wendell Holmes. D) Ralph Waldo Emerson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Henry David Thoreau. 40. What is the main subject matter of Romanticism? A) Quest for beauty. B) Escapist literature. C) External nature. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 41. Arts movement that had a deep interest in nature and the individual A) Hectreism. B) Realism. C) Romanticism. D) Individualism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Romanticism. 42. And many an eye has danced to see/That banner in the sky A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. E) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 43. According to Emerson, what is the belief that drives great men to their accomplishments? A) The belief that God works best through cowards. B) The belief that "The Eternal" (God) is working through them. C) The belief that they are better than everyone else. D) The belief that to conform is best. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The belief that "The Eternal" (God) is working through them. 44. What did it encourage? A) Exhiliration. B) Romance. C) Freedom. D) Individual Creativity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Individual Creativity. 45. Prince Prospero survives to tell the tale of his party. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 46. Bold and unconventional color schemes. A) Queen Anne Style. B) Eclectic Style. C) Early Victorian. D) High Victorian. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Queen Anne Style. 47. Neoclassicism was a reaction to what other art movement? A) Rococo. B) Realism. C) Neoclassical. D) Baroque. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rococo. 48. Consists of 5 metric units called "feet" which have an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. A) Blank Verse. B) Rhyme. C) Elaboration. D) Rhetorical Question. E) Iambic Pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Iambic Pentameter. 49. A grouped set of lines within a poem, usually set off from other stanzas by a blank line or indentation A) Paragraph. B) Rhyme. C) Stanza. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 50. True or False:The Romantic period started in the United States. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 51. The orchestra of the Romantic period became A) Expanded. B) Reduced. C) Unusual. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Expanded. 52. Often, Romantics believed one needed to explore ideas through ..... because the ..... mind could not understand all of the important truths of life. A) History, fictional. B) Novels, poetic. C) Long contemplation/thought, spontaneous. D) Imagination, rational. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagination, rational. 53. What are three words from the first stanza that help set the tone? A) Quaint, curious, forgotten. B) Napping, tapping, rapping. C) Midnight, pondered, muttered. D) Dreary, weak, weary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dreary, weak, weary. 54. What is the definition of Extended Metaphor? A) A type of comparison that extends over multiple lines, paragraphs, or stanzas. B) Descriptive language used by writers to create images in the mind of the reader. C) The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of sentences, clauses, or poetic devices. D) A comparison between two things using like or as. E) A brief reference to a famous historical, literary, or cultural person, place, or thing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A type of comparison that extends over multiple lines, paragraphs, or stanzas. 55. Why did Henry David Thoreau decide to go live alone in nature? A) He was tired of his overbearing stepfather ordering him around. B) He failed out of seminary school and needed time to think about his future plans. C) He wanted to experience nature firsthand, without the interference or interruption of people or life's daily happenings . D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He wanted to experience nature firsthand, without the interference or interruption of people or life's daily happenings . 56. Ages of Western Visual Art:Baroque A) CA. 1400-1600. B) CA. 1600-1800. C) CA. 1500-1800. D) CA. 1600-1800. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) CA. 1600-1800. 57. What characterized many works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in Western civilization during the Romantic Age? A) Order, calm, harmony, balance, idealization, and rationality. B) Individualism, subjectivity, irrationality, imagination, and emotion. C) Enlightenment, rationalism, and physical materialism. D) Folk culture, national and ethnic cultural origins, and the medieval era. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Individualism, subjectivity, irrationality, imagination, and emotion. 58. What work does the following quotation highlight? " The little waves, with their soft white hands, efface the footprints in the sand." A) "Thanatopsis". B) "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls". C) "The Ocean Forever". D) "The Fall of the House of Usher". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls". 59. As proof of the truth of his statements, the Devil ..... A) Signs Tom's forehead with a fingerprint. B) Lends Tom his ax. C) Gives Tom a piece of pirate gold. D) Promises to take Tom's wife. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Signs Tom's forehead with a fingerprint. 60. Thoreau asserts that a government which governs ..... is best. A) Most. B) In an unbiased manner. C) Least. D) Wisely. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Least. 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