This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Romantic > Romanticism – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Romanticism Quiz 16 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Turner is known for painting: A) Animals. B) Musical instruments. C) Flowers. D) Landscapes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Landscapes. 2. In "The Devil and Tom Walker, " what Romantic element best explains the role of the Devil? A) He represents Tom's mind. B) He shows the gut feeling Tom had to make the deal with the devil. C) He is part of the supernatural realm. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He is part of the supernatural realm. 3. Which of the following might be ideas that one can infer from the poem? A) Blake sees the rapid urbanisation in Britain at the time as a dangerous force. B) The speaker presents a London where children are no longer free to enjoy childhood but are forced to work in dangerous conditions. C) The poem is pessimistic. It is without hope for the future. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 4. Thomas Cole's paintings have historical allusion to contemporary issues concerning A) Slavery in the American South. B) Manifest Destiny. C) The building of the railroads and their effect on American culture. D) The treatment of American Indians as anthropological specimens. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Manifest Destiny. 5. An offshoot movement of Romanticism that was rooted in the belief of a realm of spiritual or transcendent truths beyond what humans can know through their senses. A) Storyline. B) Romanticism. C) Transcendentalism. D) Essay. E) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transcendentalism. 6. Romanticism celebrates feeling over reason, imagination over science, and ..... A) Nature over Civilization. B) Individual over Culture. C) Human Spirit over God. D) God over Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nature over Civilization. 7. American Romantic writers believed that poetry was A) An art that had been ignored by European writers. B) An effective way to bring about social change. C) A good form for describing momentous historical events. D) The greatest witness to the power of imagination. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The greatest witness to the power of imagination. 8. What are the two major categories of American Romanticism? A) Gothic Romantic & Religiousness. B) Realism and Transcendentalism. C) Gothic Romantic & Transcendentalism. D) Realism and Regionalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gothic Romantic & Transcendentalism. 9. Rationalists and Romantics disagreed on many things, but they agreed on the importance of: A) Logic. B) The Industrial Revolution. C) Nature. D) The individual. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The individual. 10. Ages of Western Visual Art:Aegean A) Ca. 2000-1200 BC. B) Ca. 1000-1200 BC. C) Ca. 4000-1200 BC. D) Ca. 3000-1200 BC. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ca. 3000-1200 BC. 11. Rip was asleep for A) 20 years. B) 200 years. C) 1776 years. D) 2 days. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 20 years. 12. "I have not broken your heart-you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine." A) Grimm Brothers. B) Wuthering Heights. C) The Castle Otranto. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wuthering Heights. 13. The quote "Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads" show Thoreau's appreciation of A) Love. B) Death. C) Nature. D) Truth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nature. 14. True or False:Dark Romantics were considered Romantics because they still valued emotion over reason. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 15. True/False:American Romantics thought that poetry was the highest form of art? A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 16. In "The Devil and Tom Walker, " why does Tom's wife go off into the forest with her best silver? A) She hopes to sell it and leave Tom. B) She is taking a gift to a relative. C) She wants to deal with the Devil. D) She plans to trade it for food. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She wants to deal with the Devil. 17. What theory set off a cultural bomb during the Victorian era? A) Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. B) Principles of Geology, Charles Lyell. C) Antonie van Leeuwenhoek's Protist class in modern Zoology. D) Catastrophism of Species by Stephen Jay Gould. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. 18. What was Emerson's famous motto? A) "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.". B) "Do unto others as you would have them do to you.". C) "Overcome evil with good.". D) "Answer a question with your own question.". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.". 19. Romantic poems typically incorporates nature. Which of the following Romantic poems doesn't incorporate imagery about nature as much as the others? A) I wandered lonely as a cloud. B) Echo. C) Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art. D) She walks in beauty. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Echo. 20. Romanticism views life as we would like it to be rather than ..... A) Intangibly. B) Realistically. C) Insensibly. D) Theoretically. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Realistically. 21. What does Tom refuse to do? A) Murder Indians. B) Become a slave-trader. C) Open a gambling house. D) Become a loan shark. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Become a slave-trader. 22. What is the definition of slant rhyme? A) Words that rhyme partially but not completely. B) A pattern of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. C) A type of figurative language in which nonhuman objects are given human qualities. D) The author's attitude toward a subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Words that rhyme partially but not completely. 23. With the Industrial Revolution came a renewed interest in what kind of research? A) Scientific. B) Historic. C) Literary. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scientific. 24. "The Fall of the House of Usher":Roderick believes that the family's problems are caused by ..... A) Bad luck. B) The evil atmosphere of the mansion. C) Contagious disease. D) Poor nutrition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The evil atmosphere of the mansion. 25. What is the speaker of "Snowbound" doing at the beginning of the poem? A) Talking to his daughter. B) Talking to his son. C) Doing chores in the barn. D) Walking in the snow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Doing chores in the barn. 26. All of the following elements of Gothic Romanticism apply to the story EXCEPT: A) Characters are tortured. B) Entrapment. C) Body snatching. D) Remote or exotic setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Body snatching. 27. Frontier:vast expanse, freedom A) Romanticism. B) Transcendentalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romanticism. 28. Who wrote the Unfinished Symphony? A) Brahms. B) Schubert. C) Lushion with noodles. D) Chopin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Schubert. 29. What is a Doppelganger? A) The alter ego or identical double of a protagonist who seems to be either a victim of an identity theft perpetrated by a mimicking supernatural presence or subject to a paranoid hallucination. B) When two or more characters parallel each other in action or personality. C) The projection of one's fears, desires and anxieties onto the other. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The alter ego or identical double of a protagonist who seems to be either a victim of an identity theft perpetrated by a mimicking supernatural presence or subject to a paranoid hallucination. 30. Who wrote Carmen in 1875? A) Chapi. B) Gounod. C) Puccini. D) Bizet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bizet. 31. The narrator of "The Black Cat" blames his change in mood and behavior on A) A brain tumor. B) A curse put on him. C) Alcohol. D) His wife divorcing him. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alcohol. 32. Who is dubbed a famous and practical transcendentalist? A) Washington Irving. B) Henry David Thoreau. C) Herman Melville. D) Nathaniel Hawthorne. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Henry David Thoreau. 33. What is one difference between American Romanticism and Transcendentalism in terms of their view on society? A) American Romanticism and Transcendentalism both believed in the inherent goodness of society. B) American Romanticism often portrayed society as corrupt and oppressive, while Transcendentalism believed in the potential for individuals to create a better society through self-reliance and spiritual connection. C) American Romanticism and Transcendentalism both believed that society should be ignored and individuals should focus on personal happiness. D) American Romanticism and Transcendentalism both believed that society should be reformed through political action. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) American Romanticism often portrayed society as corrupt and oppressive, while Transcendentalism believed in the potential for individuals to create a better society through self-reliance and spiritual connection. 34. An example of the O in TPCOASTT would be A) 5 stanzas, 2 lines each, no rhyme scheme. B) 3 stanzas, 3 lines each, ABCDEE rhyme scheme. C) 1 stanza, 4 lines each, no rhyme scheme. D) 2 stanzas, 5 lines each, ABAB rhyme scheme. E) ALL OF THESE. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) ALL OF THESE. 35. Which of the following best describes the romantic view of nature? A) Nature is full of deception and the unknown. Nature is the source of evil. B) Nature is beautiful, mysterious, and symbolic. God can be see in nature. C) Science and reason are higher than nature and should be given more attention and respect. D) Nature reveals all of the negative qualities of mankind, so we must avoid it and embrace forward progress. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nature is beautiful, mysterious, and symbolic. God can be see in nature. 36. Read the following poem and then tell me who most likely wrote it. There is that in me ..... I do not know what it is ..... but I know it is in me. Wrench'd and sweaty ..... calm and cool then my body becomes, I sleep ..... I sleep long I do not know it ..... it is without name ..... it is a word unsaid, It is not in any dictionary, utterance, symbol. Something it swings on more than the earth I swing on, To it the creation is the friend whose embracing awakes me Perhaps I might tell more. Outlines! I plead for my brothers and sisters. Do you see O my brothers and sisters?It is not chaos or death ..... it is form, union, plan ..... it is eternal life ..... it is Happiness. A) Walt Whitman. B) Emily Dickinson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Walt Whitman. 37. ..... took over France's government and declared himself emperor. A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. B) Louis XVI. C) Napoleon Bonaparte. D) James. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Napoleon Bonaparte. 38. Which of the following IS a Transcendentalist work of literature? A) "The Declaration of Independence". B) "The Devil and Tom Walker". C) "Civil Disobedience". D) "Thanatopsis". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "Civil Disobedience". 39. Proponents of Romanticism A) William Blake. B) William Wordsworth. C) Samuel Taylor Coleridge. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 40. What was realism opera known as? A) Acoustic. B) Instrumental. C) Realism. D) The chapel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Realism. 41. Gothic Literature is another name for Dark Romanticism A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 42. ..... is to state the most important ideas, events, and details in a text in your own words A) Paraphrase. B) Summarize. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Summarize. 43. Which German composer was known for his epic operas in the Romantic period? A) Grieg. B) Wagner. C) Mussorgsky. D) Beethoven. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wagner. 44. "Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before" uses which literary device? A) Oxymoron. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 45. How does the following line speak to the theme of the poem "Thanatopsis" ? "Earth, that nourish'd thee, shall claim/Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again." A) The earth provides life. B) Life is a cycle as people return to the earth in death. C) The earth is where people will sleep. D) After leaving the earth, eternal life is in heaven. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Life is a cycle as people return to the earth in death. 46. Term for the first practical photographs A) Glass type. B) Daguerreotypes. C) Papyrustype. D) Silvertype. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Daguerreotypes. 47. Which term is NOT associated with Romantic opera? A) Neutered. B) Realism. C) Lead motive. D) Nice singing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Neutered. 48. What does the quote "chartered street [ ..... ] chartered Thames" from London show? A) Blake has no idea where he is going. B) They are good at making maps. C) Even a river that is often a symbol of freedom is owned. D) Man has become a monster. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Even a river that is often a symbol of freedom is owned. 49. What does the woman remind Byron of in "She Walks in Beauty" ? A) A black snake. B) A night sky with lots of stars. C) Moonlight. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A night sky with lots of stars. 50. Number of Benjamin Franklin's virtues. A) 33. B) 3. C) 10. D) 13. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 13. 51. Which of the following is one of the most famous Gothic literature writers? A) Arthur Miller. B) Walt Whitman. C) Edgar Allan Poe. D) Henry David Thoreau. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Edgar Allan Poe. 52. In, "She Walks in Beauty", what does "which waves in every raven tress, / Or softly lightens o'er her face" mean? A) The "raven tress" refers to her dark Dress and eyes, and "softly lightens o'er her face" suggests a woman of fair complexion. This continues the contrast between light and dark that Byron has established throughout the poem. B) The "raven tress" refers to her dark hair, and "softly lightens o'er her face" suggests a woman of fair complexion. This continues the contrast between light and dark that Byron has established throughout the poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The "raven tress" refers to her dark hair, and "softly lightens o'er her face" suggests a woman of fair complexion. This continues the contrast between light and dark that Byron has established throughout the poem. 53. What is the letter-writer's goal? A) To see part of the world no one has ever seen before. B) To make friends. C) To find the monster. D) To get married. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To see part of the world no one has ever seen before. 54. Which of the following Romantic ballet dancers is known for her more full figured body shape and using her torso more throughout her dances in dips and turns? A) Marie Camargo. B) Fanny Ellsler. C) Marie Taglioni. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fanny Ellsler. 55. Because of the industrial revolution, there was a turn to ..... A) Self. B) Nature. C) Simple parts of life, truth, and beauty. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 56. Emphasis on using feelings and emotions over reason A) Organic evolution. B) Romanticism. C) Natural selection. D) Secularization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Romanticism. 57. What is the significance of experimentation within Romanticism? A) In science and in institutions. B) Polarization of north versus south. C) Vast expanse, freedom, no geographic limitations. D) Immigrants in large numbers arrive in US. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In science and in institutions. 58. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was written by ..... A) Washington Irving. B) Frederick Douglas. C) Henry David Thoreau. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Washington Irving. 59. What leading intellectual figure had a deep respect for nature? A) Emerson. B) Thoreau. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thoreau. 60. In "In Defense of Poetry" Shelley says In paragraph 2, A man cannot say, "I will compose poetry." In context, the best interpretation of that statement would be ..... A) Flowers fade, but poetic truth is eternal. B) It is not given to all men to write poetry. C) Poetry is inspired and cannot be willed into being. D) Poetry is sacred and would be profaned by such utterances. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poetry is inspired and cannot be willed into being. ← 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