This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Romantic > Romanticism – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Romanticism Quiz 12 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The American Romantic Hero is characterized by all of the following except: A) Is young, or possess youthful qualities. B) Is innocent and pure of purpose. C) Has a sense of honor based not on society's rules but on higher principles. D) Avoids nature and loves town life. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Avoids nature and loves town life. 2. What do we call the attempt to escape from American problems by focusing on something far away and non-normal? A) Futility. B) Foreign Syndrome. C) Ignoring. D) Escapism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Escapism. 3. What time period is approximately the time of the American Romantic Era? A) 1850-1900. B) 1800-1860. C) 1640-1690. D) 1700-1750. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1800-1860. 4. Ages of Western Visual Art:Medieval A) CA.1000-1500. B) CA. 500-1500. C) CA. 1000-1500. D) CA. 800-1000. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) CA. 500-1500. 5. Picturing music is A) An historical period of music. B) Music that is not explicitly "about" anything. C) Music that tells a story (narrative) or describes something (descriptive). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Music that tells a story (narrative) or describes something (descriptive). 6. Who is considered a founder of modern feminism and edited the transcendental club's literary journal? A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. B) Louisa May Alcott. C) Margaret Fuller. D) Walt Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Margaret Fuller. 7. With which statement would a Transcendentalist most likely agree? A) It is important to follow social norms. B) You are not successful until you achieve wealth. C) All people are inherently good. D) There is no way to connect with God except through a priest. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All people are inherently good. 8. The negative aspects of society, particularly man-made institutions, led to a desire to ..... A) Move to the city. B) Travel abroad. C) Move to the country. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Move to the country. 9. Champions individual freedom and the worth of the individual. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 10. In "Because I could not stop for death, " death is personified as ..... A) A polite gentleman. B) A rough and harried carriage driver. C) A weary gravedigger. D) A well-informed tour guide. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A polite gentleman. 11. In poetry, and specifically in "The Chambered Nautilus, " what is an apostrophe? A) A pause in the poem for dramatic effect. B) A form of punctuation to suggest position. C) The end of a line. D) When the author addresses an absent or nonexistent person or thing as if present and capable of understanding. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) When the author addresses an absent or nonexistent person or thing as if present and capable of understanding. 12. A Treatise on Domestic Economy charged women to A) Assertive in their marriages. B) Seek professions outside of the home. C) The managers of their households. D) Free of worldly influences. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The managers of their households. 13. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic that Romantics celebrated? A) Logic. B) Individual. C) Emotions. D) Common Man/Childhood. E) Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logic. 14. This operatic terms describes a melodic gesture associated with a person, object, or idea. A) Accompanied recitative. B) Nice singing. C) Leitmotif. D) Aria. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Leitmotif. 15. What is the signature which the devil gives to Tom Walker? A) A burn in the hand. B) A cloven skull. C) A burned stick. D) A burn in the forehead. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A burn in the forehead. 16. Anti-Romantics believed that the human spirit possessed limitations and potential destructiveness. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 17. Where does it stem from? A) Indonesia. B) France. C) Italy. D) Europe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Europe. 18. The composers of The Five had this nationality. A) Spanish. B) German. C) French. D) Russian. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Russian. 19. "Romantics believed that knowledge in gained through intuition" . Which characteristic is this? A) Strong senses, emotions, and feelins. B) Awe of nature. C) Celebration of the individual. D) Interest in the common man. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Strong senses, emotions, and feelins. 20. What was the Second Great Awakening? A) A period of renewed religious faith promoted by religious revivals. B) A period where people begun to think about a second independence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A period of renewed religious faith promoted by religious revivals. 21. Parody is a serious imitation of another work or of a type of work; parody is considered plagiarism. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 22. In "The Soul selects her own society" on page 425, Stanza 3, what is the impact of the phrase "like stone" ? A) It shows that the soul is a rock. B) It shows how unchanging the soul is. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It shows how unchanging the soul is. 23. Tom Walker might best be described as A) Having been beaten down by bad luck. B) Basically kind but misunderstood. C) Crafty but very lazy. D) Stingy and cruel but courageous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stingy and cruel but courageous. 24. What is exemplary of idealism? A) "This world is about to end. It will never improve.". B) "This world is as good as it will ever be.". C) -. D) "I think we can make this world a better place!". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "I think we can make this world a better place!". 25. Plots often focus on mysterious happenings, tragic events, and hideous outcomes. Characters are often mad, half-mad, or frightened to death. Settings are dark and often contain decayed dwellings with shadowy passageways, haunting sounds, and damp rooms. This would be seen in what type of work? A) Mystery Cult Fiction. B) SciFi. C) Realistic Fiction. D) Gothic Literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gothic Literature. 26. Who wrote Nature & Self-Reliance? A) Nathaniel Hawthorne. B) F. Scott Fitzgerald. C) Arthur Miller. D) Ralph Waldo Emerson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 27. What is Industrialism? A) Industrialism is a political ideology that advocates for the abolition of large-scale industries. B) Industrialism is a term used to describe the process of deindustrialization in a society. C) Industrialism is a cultural movement that promotes the use of traditional craftsmanship over modern technology. D) Industrialism is an economic and social system based on large-scale industries and advanced technology. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Industrialism is an economic and social system based on large-scale industries and advanced technology. 28. Romantics and Transcendentalists were advocates for all of the following EXCEPT: A) The abolition of slavery. B) Fair treatment of Native Americans. C) Equal rights for women. D) Increased government involvement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Increased government involvement. 29. Believed that people are inherently good. A) Romanticism. B) Transcendentalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Transcendentalism. 30. What is the difference between Romantic and romantic? A) Both mean the same. B) Romantic describes love stories in any culture or time period. C) Romantic was an intellectual, artistic, and literary movement and romantic describes love stories in any culture or time period. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Romantic was an intellectual, artistic, and literary movement and romantic describes love stories in any culture or time period. 31. Which of the following is NOT a Romantic author? A) Arthur Miller. B) Washington Irving. C) William Cullen Bryant. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Arthur Miller. 32. "The Fall of the House of Usher":Following her death and shortly before entombment, we find out that Roderick and Madeline were actually A) Not related. B) Cousins. C) Twins. D) Father and daughter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Twins. 33. What do the red windows in the last chamber symbolize in "The Masque of the Red Death" ? A) Blood and death. B) Love and hope. C) Elegance and wealth. D) Honesty and renewal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blood and death. 34. The most important genre of literature to Romantics is A) Sermons. B) Brochures. C) Novels. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poetry. 35. Why does the narrator of The Black Cat say "perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart" ? A) To explain his alcoholism. B) To explain how the cat's eye recovered. C) To explain why he killed Pluto. D) To explain why he murdered his wife. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To explain why he killed Pluto. 36. Which artist was an English landcape artist known for using brushstrokes to capture the power of nature? A) Francisco Goya. B) J.M.W. Turner. C) William Blaque. D) Caspar David Friedrich. E) Thomas Cole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Caspar David Friedrich. 37. Expert performer admired by the audience. A) Musician. B) Artist. C) Virtuoso. D) Expert. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Virtuoso. 38. What are the dates of the first part of the American Romanticism movement that we've studied thus far? A) 1800-1860. B) 1800-1865. C) 1800-1900. D) 1800-1855. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1800-1865. 39. What happened before the Romantic Era? A) Novels were all the rage. B) Artists focused nature and beauty. C) The French Revolution. D) The Napoleonic Wars. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The French Revolution. 40. Beethoven prioritized form and structure rather than emotion. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 41. Romantics celebrated the beauty, power, and wonder of the natural world. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 42. T/F-the tone of "Ozymandias" is ironic. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 43. Likelihood, believability A) Obstinacy. B) Pertinacity. C) Plausibility. D) Ostentatious. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plausibility. 44. The main types of ballroom dance were waltz, polka, bolero, courante, mazurca, giga and minuet. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 45. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud is one of Wordsworth's most famous poems. It was inspired by an event A) On 15 April 1803. B) On 15 April 1802. C) On 15 April 1804. D) On 15 April 1805. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) On 15 April 1802. 46. What is the theme of "The Devil and Tom Walker" ? A) Greed and moral corruption lead us down the wrong path. B) Do not stray from religion. C) Be good to others. D) God cannot save a wretched soul. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Greed and moral corruption lead us down the wrong path. 47. What is the core idea of Transcendentalism? A) Moving beyond common experience. B) Focusing on social norms. C) Rejecting intuition and gut feeling. D) Embracing logical and rational thinking. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Moving beyond common experience. 48. What is a literature piece written by Emily Dickinson? A) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. B) Hope Is The Thing With Feathers. C) The Vampyre. D) Dreamland. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hope Is The Thing With Feathers. 49. All of the following are characteristics of Romanticism EXCEPT? A) Nature's beauty is spiritual. B) Feelings and Intuition are superior to Logic. C) Civilization and Industrialization are motivational. D) Individual Freedoms are important. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Civilization and Industrialization are motivational. 50. Transcendentalism is the belief that ..... A) Saving money is a great habit. B) Living a stressful life without emotions and feelings is the way to be. C) A simple life and close relationship to nature are important to one's existence. D) People are inherently evil. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A simple life and close relationship to nature are important to one's existence. 51. Which of the following is NOT true of Edgar Allan Poe? A) His birthday is February 19. B) He was an orphan. C) He was kicked out of two schools. D) He married his 13 year old cousin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His birthday is February 19. 52. Lying down with the head facing down A) Avert. B) Prostrate. C) Mitigate. D) Tumultuous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prostrate. 53. In "The World Is Too Much With Us, " what does the speaker wish to be? A) A banker. B) A Pagan. C) Powerful as a God. D) Able to earn and spend as much money as possible. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A Pagan. 54. What elements of transcendentalism are here? I laugh at the lore and the pride of man, At the schools, and the schoolmaster's fans; For what are they all with their pride and conceit, When man with God in the brush may meet A) Reliance on one's self. B) Disinterest in famous philosophers' ideas. C) No desire to conform to society or its rules. D) Purity and equality of people. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Disinterest in famous philosophers' ideas. 55. What is a nonviolent/peaceful protest often called? A) Civil disobedience. B) Jay walking. C) Warfare. D) Silent boycott. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Civil disobedience. 56. Romantics responded specifically to which of the following aspects of the Industrial Revolution? A) Children and the breakdown of the family. B) Government's lack of efficiency. C) The industrial focus of the time and scientific writing. D) The differences in the classes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Children and the breakdown of the family. 57. Understanding something without any prior knowledge: A) Intuition. B) Idealism. C) Individuality. D) Imagination. E) Inspiration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Intuition. 58. Who painted the famous artwork 'The Raft of the Medusa'? A) William Blake. B) Eugene Delacroix. C) Francesco Hayez. D) Theodore Gericault. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theodore Gericault. 59. Which of these statements best reflects Henry David Thoreau's philosophical assumption as expressed in Walden? A) Human beings are creatures of great complexity. B) Building a cabin in the woods is practical and inexpensive. C) Living a simple life close to nature lets a person concentrate on important things. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Living a simple life close to nature lets a person concentrate on important things. 60. What was the sub-category of the Romantic period. Also called the "Dark Romantics" A) Tragedy. B) Science Fiction. C) Gothic. D) Comedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gothic. ← 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