This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Romantic > Romanticism – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Romanticism Quiz 10 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Edgar Allen Poe was a Romantic A) Author. B) Singer. C) Architect. D) Painter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Author. 2. Who wrote A White Heron A) Emily Dickinson. B) Walt Whitman. C) Sarah Orne Jewett. D) Nathaniel Hawthorne. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sarah Orne Jewett. 3. A composer is ..... A) A person that waves his arms in front of musicians. B) A person who repairs cars. C) A person who eats sardines. D) A person who writes music. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A person who writes music. 4. Ichabod and ..... are rivals for the love of Katrina. A) Hans Van Ripper. B) Diedrich Knickerbocker. C) Brom Bones. D) Baltus Van Tassel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brom Bones. 5. Which of the following pairs of words is an example of slant rhyme? A) Sea & thee. B) Winds & port. C) Port & chart. D) Winds & compass. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Port & chart. 6. What is the one condition that was not mentioned? A) Tom's soul for the money. B) He will die in 5 minutes. C) Tom will turn into a tree. D) The Devil will marry his wife. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tom's soul for the money. 7. One of the most interesting plants is the cactus, for it is able to live without water for years. A) Correct. B) Comma splice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Correct. 8. What is a leitmotiv? A) It is a type of composition. B) It is a part of the sonata. C) It is a melody to indentify different characters in operas. D) It is a traditional melody to use in operas from Nationalism style. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is a melody to indentify different characters in operas. 9. While Beethoven stayed within the bounds of Classical forms, his great urge for person expression caused him to expand their length. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 10. Which of the following elements are NOT an example of Transcendentalism elements? A) Transcendentalist writers believed that everyone should work together for the common good. B) People, nature, and "God" are interconnected. C) Emotions and imagination should be celebrated. D) People are inherently good. E) People should focus on individualism and self-reliance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transcendentalist writers believed that everyone should work together for the common good. 11. Which of the following operas is not by Verdi? A) The Traviata. B) Turandot. C) Rigoletto. D) Aida. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Turandot. 12. Which group of writers explored conflicts between good and evil, psychological effects of guilt and sin, and madness? A) The Dark Romantics. B) The Realists. C) The American Romantics. D) The Transcendentalists. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Dark Romantics. 13. American Romanticism is the literary period that came directly after ..... A) The Age of Reason. B) Puritanism. C) The Renaissance. D) Christianity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Age of Reason. 14. In "The Devil and Tom Walker, " Tom Walker's wife is best described as A) Very generous and much loved by her neighbors. B) Kind toward her husband but cruel to others. C) Yearning for companionship. D) A fierce shrew, always nagging and yelling. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A fierce shrew, always nagging and yelling. 15. Dark, or Gothic / Anti-, Romanticism is a literary subgenre of Romanticism, reflecting popular fascination with sin, evil within society or an individual, the irrational, the demonic, and the grotesque. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 16. Which of the following words means "gloomy, or ill tempered?" A) Emaciated. B) Pallid. C) Sullen. D) Tremulous. E) Enshrouded. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sullen. 17. What did transcendentalist advise? A) To grow closer to religion, art, and literature. B) Self-reliance, simple living away from society, disregard institutions, and follow your own beliefs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Self-reliance, simple living away from society, disregard institutions, and follow your own beliefs. 18. What part of speech is used when Longfellow compares life to a battle? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Antithesis. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 19. In the fifth characteristic "the idealization of women" refers to: A) Women were seen as innocent, pure creatures who should be admired and respected. B) The Romantic movement typically saw women as objects for male admiration rather than as people with their own dreams and ambition. C) The Romanticists saw women as a source of beauty and truth. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Romantic movement typically saw women as objects for male admiration rather than as people with their own dreams and ambition. 20. In comparison to the classical style, romantic music showed ..... variation in dynamics. A) Less. B) More. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) More. 21. Who is the author speaking to in "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" ? A) Margaret Fuller. B) Her mom. C) Miranda. D) Nobody. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Miranda. 22. According to Romanticism, the quest for beauty should govern how a person lives their life. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 23. Who wrote Legend of Sleepy Hollow? A) Newsela. B) The Headless Horseman. C) George Washington. D) Washington Irving. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Washington Irving. 24. What does Longfellow's poem "A Psalm of Life" compare life to? A) A ship. B) Footprints. C) Nature. D) A battlefield. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A battlefield. 25. Which of these characters originated in a Grimm fairy tale? A) The Little Mermaid. B) Jasmine. C) Simba. D) Rapunzel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rapunzel. 26. What is the German word for song? A) Character piece. B) Strophic. C) Lied. D) Hallo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lied. 27. What are the dates of Romanticism movement in England? A) 1812-1861. B) 1798-1837. C) 1802-1865. D) 1789-1840. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1798-1837. 28. In ..... the Slavery Abolition Act abolished slavery in most British colonies. A) 1832. B) 1798. C) 1833. D) 1811. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1833. 29. A literary work in which characters, events, settings, and other story elements are symbolic to something else is called: A) Symbolism. B) Repetition. C) Allegory. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allegory. 30. What type of pronoun appears in the following excerpt from Walden: "Under the most splendid house in the city is still to be found the cellar where they store their roots as of old ..... " A) Reflexive pronoun. B) Indefinite pronoun. C) Interrogative pronoun. D) Personal pron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reflexive pronoun. 31. Who is Miranda in "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" ? A) The author's diary. B) The author's mom. C) The author's dad. D) The author herself. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The author herself. 32. Dark Romantics ..... A) Looked at nature and felt the presence of a Divine Soul. B) Looked a nature and saw something to be examined scientifically. C) Explored the conflict between good & evil. D) Worked with American subject matter written in an English sophisticated style. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Explored the conflict between good & evil. 33. The strange men in the amphitheater were A) Digging holes. B) Trying to get away from their wives like Rip. C) Building homes. D) Bowling. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bowling. 34. Which poet most likely wrote the following poem? This is my letter to the WorldThat never wrote to Me ..... The simple News that Nature told ..... With tender Majesty Her Message is committedTo Hands I cannot see ..... For love of Her ..... Sweet ..... countrymen ..... Judge tenderly ..... of Me A) Walt Whitman. B) Emily Dickinson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emily Dickinson. 35. Which physical feature stands out for Mark Twain? A) His thick glasses. B) His bright red hair. C) His mustache. D) His beard. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His mustache. 36. Which poet is often considered to have invented the historical novel? A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. B) John Keats. C) William Wordsworth. D) Sir Walter Scott. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sir Walter Scott. 37. What is the belief that human beings can arrive at truth by using reason and logic? A) Regionalism. B) Rationalism. C) Transcendentalism. D) Romanticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rationalism. 38. Romantic writers did more than just "sit in cabins in the woods." They were valuable tools in the fight for social reform. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 39. One downside to the Industrial Revolution was ..... A) England lost their 13 colonies. B) The people had no say in the government. C) Children died in the new factories. D) Rebels stormed Bastille prison. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Children died in the new factories. 40. Who was not a Romantic writer? A) Thomas Cole. B) Emily Dickinson. C) Herman Melville. D) Edgar Allen Poe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thomas Cole. 41. Match the following characteristic to its proper age.God as a "clockmaker" A) Puritanism. B) Age of Reason. C) Romanticism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Age of Reason. 42. ..... is evidence based on personal experience A) Statistical evidence. B) Anecdotal evidence. C) Empirical evidence. D) Logical evidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anecdotal evidence. 43. Emily Dickinson wrote A) Nonfiction literature based on her life experiences. B) Poetry. C) Graphic novels. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetry. 44. Any list of particular characteristics of the literature of romanticism includes ..... A) Pity. B) Subjectivity. C) Negativity. D) Cavity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subjectivity. 45. Which story did we read that is a folk tale? A) "To a Waterfowl". B) "The Raven". C) "The Devil and Tom Walker". D) "The Oval Portrait". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "The Devil and Tom Walker". 46. What is the definition of Extort? A) To say something to and answer to a remark or accusation. B) Not securely held or in position. C) Win or regain the favor of a person. D) To obtain something by force, threats, or unfair means. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To obtain something by force, threats, or unfair means. 47. What is a "Schubertiad" ? A) A 19th century fan club. B) A song about eating sherbet. C) A social gathering for music and poetry that featured Schubert's songs and piano music. D) Any composer who lives a bohemian life style. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A social gathering for music and poetry that featured Schubert's songs and piano music. 48. What is a nonconformist? A) A genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction and horror, death, and at times romance. B) A person whose behavior or views do not conform to prevailing ideas or practices. C) Any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material. D) A tendency to expect the best possible outcome. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A person whose behavior or views do not conform to prevailing ideas or practices. 49. Valuing logic, planning, and cultivation best describes the belief of what movement? A) Romanticism. B) Transcendentalism. C) Rationalism. D) Dark Romanticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rationalism. 50. When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongueCould scarcely cry " 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!"So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep. This stanza depicts A) Poets sadness over the death of his mother. B) Poet is giving a background of his situation. C) Poet is crying for help. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poet is giving a background of his situation. 51. The promise between us was a delicate flower. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 52. Which of the following was not typically associated with Walt Whitman's poetry? A) Iambic pentameter. B) Catalogues/lists. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iambic pentameter. 53. The theory that life forms develop from simpler forms is known as: A) Secularization. B) Realism. C) Organic evolution. D) Conservatism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Organic evolution. 54. In the Compromise of 1850, California became a ..... A) Slave state. B) Free state. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free state. 55. What are some of the characteristics of the Baroque period? A) Ornamentation and Decoration. B) Clean and basic. C) Loud and bombastic. D) Soft and quiet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ornamentation and Decoration. 56. Most of the operas written by Verdi were based on theatre written by ..... A) Shakespeare. B) Shiller. C) Quevedo. D) Wagner. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shakespeare. 57. By the time he was 45, Beethoven ..... A) Gave up composing to concentrate on his career as a pianist. B) Gave up his career as a pianist to concentrate on his composing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gave up his career as a pianist to concentrate on his composing. 58. What did Romantic writers elevate over reason? A) Faith, hope, and love. B) Imagination, feeling, intuition. C) Independence, order, government. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagination, feeling, intuition. 59. The main characteristic of Romaticism style was ..... A) All composers must follow patters to write their music. B) All composers wrote music following their own feelings. C) Music was composed for Kings and important people. D) Musicians wrote music thinking about country's feelings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All composers wrote music following their own feelings. 60. Wordsworth aims at the original state of harmony with nature. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesRomanticism Quiz 1Romanticism Quiz 2Romanticism Quiz 3Romanticism Quiz 4Romanticism Quiz 5Romanticism Quiz 6Romanticism Quiz 7Romanticism Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books