This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Romantic > Romanticism – Quiz 19 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Romanticism Quiz 19 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Rip Van Winkle was an enthusiastic supporter of the American Revolution. A) True! Rip was the first to sign up to fight. B) False, he wanted the colonies to remain under British rule. C) At first he wasn't, but Benjamin Franklin changed his mind. D) He didn't really take a side or even seem to care. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He didn't really take a side or even seem to care. 2. The typical Romantic hero is worldly, educated, and sophisticated. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 3. Who built the Smolny Cathedral? A) Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli. B) Jose Benito de Churriguera. C) Dominic Zimmerman. D) Christopher Michael Wren. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli. 4. Which of the following expresses an attitude about abolition held by some white workers? A) They supported it because it would hurt the women's rights movement. B) They worried that it would result in overcrowded schools. C) They welcomed it because it meant that more men and women could vote in elections. D) They were against it because they feared that freed slaves would take their jobs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They were against it because they feared that freed slaves would take their jobs. 5. Which of the following is NOT is not one of the essential elements of satire? A) Making fun of an idea, person, or institution. B) Use of irony. C) Making a broader point about society, culture, politics, etc. D) All of the above are essential elements. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above are essential elements. 6. Which of the following literary works is not an example of Romanticism? A) "Thanatopsis". B) "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". C) "Self-Reliance". D) "The Devil and Tom Walker". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "Self-Reliance". 7. Emerson wrote, "To be great is to be misunderstood." What does he mean by this? A) It's a sarcastic comment and he actually means the op. B) One should surrender to society's conformity. C) It's okay if people do not understand you as long as you are being true to yourself. D) A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It's okay if people do not understand you as long as you are being true to yourself. 8. "TMBV":When Elizabeth says, "there may be whispers that you hide your face under the consciousness of secret sin", she means A) Secret sins were the only topic of conversation. B) People discuss the private lives of everyone. C) People are interested in only the minister. D) Ministers are considered beyond discussion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) People discuss the private lives of everyone. 9. The Indian Removal Act of 1930 is an example of ..... A) Nationalism. B) Growth of industry. C) Social reform. D) Westward expansion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Westward expansion. 10. American Romanticism was the birth of a set of new ideas in American literature, art, music, and thought. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. What was a main value of Romanticism A) Stopping the Industrial Revolution. B) Moving away from religion. C) Returning to the roots. D) Focusing on logic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Returning to the roots. 12. Name of this painting. A) The Charging Chasseur. B) Liberty Leading the People. C) The Raft of Medusa. D) The Third of May. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Charging Chasseur. 13. What American Artist painted The Titan's Goblet and founded the Hudson River School movement? A) Francisco Goya. B) William Blaque. C) Caspar Friedrich. D) Thomas Cole. E) J.M.L. Turner. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thomas Cole. 14. Which of the following is the best description of life inside Tom's house? A) Full of inmates. B) Used as a prison. C) Tom and Wife are on house arrest. D) Tom and Mrs. Walker are in an unhappy marriage, bickering all the time. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tom and Mrs. Walker are in an unhappy marriage, bickering all the time. 15. Writers from this movement saw value in reflecting on childhood experiences and lives of common people. A) Romantic. B) Neoclassical. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romantic. 16. The narrator indicates that Old Scratch doesn't frighten Tom because ..... A) Tom's wife is more frightening. B) He doesn't look like the Devil. C) He uses his powers to calm Tom. D) Tom doesn't realize who he is. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tom's wife is more frightening. 17. Preoccupation with morbid and gloomy concepts A) Romanticism. B) Transcendentalism. C) Dark Romanticism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dark Romanticism. 18. Which of the following IS a Romantic author? A) Abigail Adams. B) Arthur Miller. C) Ralph Waldo Emerson. D) Washington Irving. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Washington Irving. 19. Match the following characteristic to its proper age.God determines fate A) Puritanism. B) Age of Reason. C) Romanticism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Puritanism. 20. Why are Tom and his wife so unhappy? A) They are greedy and argue about money. B) They are greedy and have no children. C) They work too much and are tired. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They are greedy and argue about money. 21. In the poem, "She Walks in Beauty", what kind of beauty does Byron describe? A) Outward appearances. B) Inner goodness. C) Both outward appearances and inner goodness. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both outward appearances and inner goodness. 22. Like the Puritans, American Romantics were defined by their religion. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 23. Which statement about the Missouri Compromise (1820) is most accurate? A) Slavery was banned west of the Mississippi River. B) Unorganized territories would be governed by the United States and Great Britain. C) The balance between free and slave states was maintained. D) The 36 30 line formed a new boundary between the United States and Canada. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The balance between free and slave states was maintained. 24. Sleepy Hollow is said to be A) A very poor, depressed area. B) A wealthy area. C) Haunted. D) A famous tourist attraction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Haunted. 25. Romanticism started in Western Europe and spread around A) The Northern Hemisphere. B) The World. C) The Southern Hemisphere. D) The United States. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The World. 26. In which city did the German author Goethe publish the quintessential romantic love story 'The Sorrows of Young Werther'? A) Westminster, London. B) Madrid, Spain. C) Leipzig, Germany. D) Niagara, United States. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Leipzig, Germany. 27. What German artist painted The Wanderer Above Sea and Fog? A) William Blake. B) Caspar David Friedrich. C) J.M.W. Turner. D) Francisco Goya. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Caspar David Friedrich. 28. What are 3 key Transcendentalist beliefs? A) -Live lavishly-Participate in violent protests-Over-exaggerate your time in prison. B) -Live simply-Defy the government-Throw a tantrum during your 1 night in jail. C) -Live simply-Seek transcendent (intuitive) forms of knowledge-Nature can connect you to spirituality. D) -Live however you want-Find God in the material world-Take walks in nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) -Live simply-Seek transcendent (intuitive) forms of knowledge-Nature can connect you to spirituality. 29. Masque of Anarchy A) Mary Shelley. B) Percy Bysshe Shelley. C) John Keats. D) William Blake. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Percy Bysshe Shelley. 30. He was one of the most popular English Romantic poets, and is regarded as a great lyrical poet in English language. A) William Wordsworth. B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. C) Percy Bysshe Shelley. D) John Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Percy Bysshe Shelley. 31. The Italian term for "beautiful singing" is A) Until we meet again. B) Ciao. C) Antipasti. D) Nice singing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nice singing. 32. What was the Romantic Movement? A) A way of living based on love and romance. B) The beginning of the "Second Era of Good Feelings". C) An Era that promoted "family integrity". D) Movement that begun in Europe, drew on individual emotion and perspective, celebration of nature and simple life. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Movement that begun in Europe, drew on individual emotion and perspective, celebration of nature and simple life. 33. In what time period was American Romanticism? A) 1900s. B) 1700s. C) 1800s. D) 1600s. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1800s. 34. People in the Romantic period were no longer willing to be ruled by a(n) ..... ; they insisted on having a voice in their government A) Queen. B) Pope. C) King. D) Absolute monarch. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Absolute monarch. 35. Which of these was not a form of art in the Romanticism period. A) Music. B) Plays. C) Paintings. D) Clothing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plays. 36. In Spain, Wagner created the musical drama, conceived as a total work of art with continuous progress. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 37. What is Doubling in Gothic Lit? A) The projection of one's fears, desires and anxieties onto the other. B) When two or more characters or objects are parallel to each other in action or personality. C) 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. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) When two or more characters or objects are parallel to each other in action or personality. 38. Who is known for writing the first truly American novel? A) Edgar Allan Poe. B) James Fennimore Cooper. C) Washington Irving. D) Nathaniel Hawthorne. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) James Fennimore Cooper. 39. Who focused on the lower and middle classes in Britain's early industrial age? A) Charles Dickens. B) Gustave Flaubert. C) Gustave Courbet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Charles Dickens. 40. With firmness; without changing A) Squeamish. B) Steadfastly. C) Strenuous. D) Prone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Steadfastly. 41. "TMBV":A social lesson of this story might be that A) No one needs to worry about the other people's opinions. B) The best policy is not to wear veils in public. C) Most people have nothing to hide from one another. D) People protect their personal privacy by wearing a public mask. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) People protect their personal privacy by wearing a public mask. 42. What did Emily Dickinson want to happen to her poems after her death? A) She asked her sister to take care of them and pass them down to her niece. B) She wanted them destroyed by fire (burned). C) She wanted them released for publication under her real name. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She wanted them destroyed by fire (burned). 43. The transcedentalists found their chief source of inspiration in ..... A) Nature. B) Religion. C) Love. D) Experiences. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nature. 44. The Romantics thought that reality wasn't a machine, but rather an entity with a ..... A) Spirit. B) Meaning. C) Beating heart. D) Will. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spirit. 45. What is one principle of Transcendentalism? A) Belief in the inherent goodness of both people and nature. B) Belief in the inherent goodness of people but not nature. C) Denial of the existence of nature. D) Belief in the inherent evilness of both people and nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Belief in the inherent goodness of both people and nature. 46. Who was President when Rip woke up? A) Ulysses S. Grant. B) George Washington. C) Ben Franklin. D) Thomas Jefferson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) George Washington. 47. He was a very influential writer in Romanticism A) Percy Bysshe Shelley. B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. C) William Wordsworth. D) John Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 48. In The Raven, when the author first heard the "rapping at his chamber door, " who did he think was outside? A) His neighbor. B) Pluto. C) The raven. D) Some late night visitor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Some late night visitor. 49. Noel is a ..... singer that travels across the country to play his music at various festivals. A) Nomadic. B) Libertine. C) Deviant. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nomadic. 50. What is the name given to the group of poets who wrote during the Romantic era? A) The Romantic Poets. B) The Transcendental Poets. C) The Boring Old Guys. D) The Fireside Poets. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Fireside Poets. 51. Victorian literature showed a more ..... presentation of life as it was rather than how it should be. A) Idealistic. B) Pessimistic. C) Realistic. D) Impressionistic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Realistic. 52. "The Fall of the House of Usher":What did the narrator notice when he helped place Madeline's body in the tomb? A) Her eyes were open. B) Her cheeks were rosy. C) Her body smelled horribly. D) She was still breathing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Her cheeks were rosy. 53. Were inspired by the beauty of nature; emphasized emotions and imagination over reason; celebrated the individual spirit; spontaneous overflow of emotions A) Romanticism. B) Rationalism. C) Gothicism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romanticism. 54. What is the definition of befell? A) A way to celebrate someone. B) Someone who is dark and mysterious. C) Something bad happened to someone. D) Being deep in thought. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Something bad happened to someone. 55. In "Thanatopsis, " along with Romantic ideals, Nature urges the poet to find comfort in the A) Fact that he is young and death is far off. B) Knowledge that death joins us with all others. C) Promise of resurrection after death. D) Idea that he will be famous after he dies. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Knowledge that death joins us with all others. 56. The following quote is best displaying which element of absence? "It used to be said, in her younger days, that if anything were amiss with a corpse, if only the ruff were not smooth, or the cap did not set right, the corpse in the coffin and beneath the clods would strive to put up its cold hands and arrange it. The bare thought made her nervous." A) Unstoppable. B) Unknown. C) Unseen. D) Unbelievable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unseen. 57. "Civil Disobedience" A) Transcendentalism. B) Romanticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transcendentalism. 58. Identify the Puritan religious leader who influenced Ben Franklin and kept records of witch trials. A) William Bradford. B) Cotton Mather. C) Jonathan Edwards. D) Mary Rowlandson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cotton Mather. 59. The Fireside poets wanted to prove ..... A) People can use their intuition to behold God's spirit. B) That Americans were not unsophisticated. C) Science was a vulture. D) Idealism was the very oldest of thoughts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) That Americans were not unsophisticated. 60. Which of these is a supernatural creature? A) Demon. B) Ghost. C) Vampire. D) Werewolf. E) All of these. 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