This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Romantic > Romanticism – Quiz 20 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Romanticism Quiz 20 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which symphony was written by Beethoven when he was totally deaf? A) The "choral". B) The "pastoral". C) The "heroica". D) The symphony of the "destiny". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The "choral". 2. What German artist printed The Wanderer Above Sea and Fog? A) Caspar David Friedrich. B) Thomas Cole. C) Francisco Goya. D) J.M.W. Turner. E) William Blaque. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Caspar David Friedrich. 3. What body part was the first cat missing? A) His eye. B) A leg. C) His tail. D) His heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His eye. 4. Also known as William Turner A) J.M.W Turner. B) M.J.W Turner. C) W.M.J Turner. D) W.W.E Turner. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) J.M.W Turner. 5. What poet said this statement" poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings? A) William blake. B) Percy Bessy Shelly. C) William Wordsworth. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Wordsworth. 6. Romantics believed that nature = corruption A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 7. King Louis's wife was A) Frankenstein. B) Jane Austen. C) Marie Antoinette. D) Mary Shelley. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Marie Antoinette. 8. Who wrote I Hear America Singing? A) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. B) Walt Whitman. C) Emily Dickinson. D) Henry David Thoreau. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Walt Whitman. 9. Which piece is part of "Hope is the Thing With Feathers" ? A) Misgivings. B) Dreamland. C) The Heart Asks Pleasure-First. D) The House of Seven Gables. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Heart Asks Pleasure-First. 10. Style of art for the rich, of the rich by the rich A) Rococo. B) Romantic. C) Mannerism. D) Baroque. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rococo. 11. Movement in art that reflected the growing political importance of the working class in the 1850s A) Realism. B) Practicalism. C) Romanticism. D) Everydayism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Realism. 12. Which of the following Romantic ballet dancers is known for her shortening of her skirt, no longer wearing heeled shoes and wearing slippers instead, innocent demeanor, and perform jumps there were traditionally performed by men at this time? A) Marie Camargo. B) Fanny Ellsler. C) Marie Taglioni. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Marie Camargo. 13. The term "tear-jerker" means that something is so inspirational it causes you to ..... A) Be a jerk to people. B) Be super happy and inventive. C) Cry. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cry. 14. Romanticism is about intellectuality A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 15. Realism depicts what? A) Imaginary worlds. B) Fantasy lands. C) Supernatural beings. D) Real life. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Real life. 16. Unlike the Enlightened, the Romantics viewed emotions as authentic and important. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 17. The location of the black chamber at the western end of the suite A) Suggests an end of daylight and life. B) Indicates a fascination with the bizarre. C) Suggests a mood of exploration and excitement. D) Leaves the reader feeling unfulfilled. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Suggests an end of daylight and life. 18. What areas of the United States were affected by the Second Great Awakening? A) Texas, Alabama, Florida. B) California, Nevada, Colorado. C) Oregon, Canada, Alaska. D) New York, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, South Carolina, New England, and the South. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) New York, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, South Carolina, New England, and the South. 19. Generally speaking how did Transcendentalists live their lives order to uphold their core beliefs? A) They lived simply and in moderation. B) They pursued material wealth. C) They looked towards others to figure out life's truths. D) They tried to live an opulent and decadent lifestyle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They lived simply and in moderation. 20. American Dark Romantic or Gothic Romantic writers explored topics such as: A) Conflicts between men and women. B) Psychological effects of sin and guilt. C) Everyday activities. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Psychological effects of sin and guilt. 21. What happens when the bird doesn't give the narrator the answers he wants to hear? A) He accepts what the raven is telling him. B) He smashes the bust of Pallas. C) He begins screaming at the bird to get out and leave him alone. D) He refuses to listen to him anymore, and invests in an excellent pair of noise-cancelling headphones . Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He begins screaming at the bird to get out and leave him alone. 22. Characteristic Feature:Its architecture was a style principally derived from the architectural designs of the Italian architect Andrea Palladio. A) Romanticism. B) Realism. C) Rococo. D) Neoclassism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neoclassism. 23. "The Devil and Tom Walker" A) Romanticism. B) Transcendentalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romanticism. 24. Playfully quaint or fanciful, especially in an appealing and amusing way A) Aesthetic. B) Whimsical. C) Frivolous. D) Individualism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Whimsical. 25. Romantic poems typically looks back on the past and criticizes the future. Which two of the following Romantic poems accomplishes both (thinks back to the past because of an unsatisfactory present)? A) "She walks in beauty" and "I wandered lonely as a cloud". B) "Echo" and "I wandered lonely as a cloud". C) "Echo" and "Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art". D) "She walks in beauty" and "Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "Echo" and "I wandered lonely as a cloud". 26. In what ways was nature used as a Romantic subject matter? A) As a place to research new plant species and connect to God. B) As place to seek refuge, find knowledge of the past, and connect to God. C) As a place to seek refuge, live with the animals, and conduct science experiments. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) As place to seek refuge, find knowledge of the past, and connect to God. 27. What is the mood of the poem, "The World is Too Much With Us" ? A) Frustration. B) Hopefulness. C) Sadness. D) Happiness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Frustration. 28. Romantic literature emphasized imagination and feelings as opposed to reason. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 29. Who wrote the short story "The Devil and Tom Walker?" A) Edgar Allan Poe. B) Washington Irving. C) Charlotte Bronte. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Washington Irving. 30. Analysis of Romanticism literature:How does Romanticism literature portray the relationship between humans and nature? A) Romanticism literature portrays the relationship between humans and nature as one of fear and hostility. B) Romanticism literature portrays the relationship between humans and nature as one of indifference and disconnection. C) Romanticism literature portrays the relationship between humans and nature as one of harmony and spiritual connection. D) Romanticism literature portrays the relationship between humans and nature as one of dominance and exploitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Romanticism literature portrays the relationship between humans and nature as one of harmony and spiritual connection. 31. The idee fixe is A) A musical idea that is repeated with no changes throughout the composition. B) A musical idea that is repeated with changes (unfolded) throughout the composition. C) All the musical ideas that form a composition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A musical idea that is repeated with changes (unfolded) throughout the composition. 32. Which opera was NOT written by Verdi? A) Nabucco (1841). B) Aida (1871). C) La Traviata (1853). D) Tosca (1900). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tosca (1900). 33. Which of these was a factor in the development of Romantics' VIEW OF NATURE? A) The industrial revolution. B) The French revolution. C) Territory disputes. D) Plagues. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The industrial revolution. 34. The Baptist theology was grounded in a loose interpretation of the Bible. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 35. "Once upon a midnight dreary, While I pondered, weak and weary" This contains an example of ..... A) Tone. B) Personification. C) Rhyme. D) Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 36. The American Romantic Hero quests for some higher truth in the natural world. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 37. The quote "Yet, mad am I not ..... and very surely do I not dream. But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburden my soul" is from ..... A) "The Tell-Tale Heart". B) "The Black Cat". C) Because I Could Not Stop for Death". D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "The Black Cat". 38. Having or showing skill in achieving one's ends. A) Cunning. B) Sly. C) Impetuous. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cunning. 39. Which is NOT one of the scientific matters the letter-writer wants to study? A) Magnetism/what makes compass needles point North. B) Discovering a passage through the arctic to other countries. C) Observing the stars and other celestial phenomena. D) Learning how to reanimate the dead. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Learning how to reanimate the dead. 40. Which composition suggests passion and pathos? A) Don Giovanni. B) A Little Night Music. C) Piano Sonata, Op. 13 the Pathetique. D) Piano Concerto in C major, K 467. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Piano Sonata, Op. 13 the Pathetique. 41. The Dark Romantics explored ..... A) The reasons for the decay of European society. B) The civilization of the Goths. C) The psychological effects of sin and guilt as well as the conflict between good and evil. D) Traditional religion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The psychological effects of sin and guilt as well as the conflict between good and evil. 42. Who is considered the Inventor of the American Short Story? A) Washington Irving. B) Edgar Allan Poe. C) Nathaniel Hawthorne. D) Herman Melville. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Edgar Allan Poe. 43. What was the basic idea of transcendentalism? A) The exploration of a naturalistic and unstructured spirituality. B) The pursuit of physical and materialistic desires. C) The rejection of individualism and self-reliance. D) The adherence to institutionalized religion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The exploration of a naturalistic and unstructured spirituality. 44. The Romantic movement originated from which country? A) Colombia. B) United Kingdom. C) United States. D) Europe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Europe. 45. In "Resistance to Civil Government, " How was Thoreau still free in jail? A) They could not lock up his mind or his spirit. B) He could still get good cell phone service. C) He could go outside and walk around as he pleased. D) He could see his aunt whenever he wanted to. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They could not lock up his mind or his spirit. 46. What might be a summary of the poem? The Sick RoseO Rose thou art sick.The invisible worm, That flies in the nightIn the howling storm:Has found out thy bedOf crimson joy:And his dark secret loveDoes thy life destroy. A) Nature vs. Nurture. B) The rose dies because the worm infects it. C) The rose dies while the worm is inside it. D) The worm dies inside the rose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The rose dies because the worm infects it. 47. The Transcendentalists believed that everything in the world is a reflection of the ..... A) Individualism. B) Divine Soul. C) Idealized Soul. D) Self-Reliance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Divine Soul. 48. A reference to a person, place, poem, book, event, or movie outside of the story that the author expects the reader will recognize. A) Pathos. B) Paradox. C) Allusion. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 49. When winds were hurrying o'er the flood A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. E) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 50. Edgar Allan Poe writes ..... A) Dark Romantic literature. B) Romantic literature. C) Transcendental literature. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dark Romantic literature. 51. What was President Jackson's response to South Carolina's support for nullification? A) He threatened to remove people from South Carolina to the West. B) He refused to give South Carolina any federal funds. C) He challenged South Carolina to take its case to the Supreme Court. D) He threatened to use military force to make the state obey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He threatened to use military force to make the state obey. 52. Who wrote Lyrical Ballads? A) W.Wordsworth, W.Balke. B) S.Coleridge, R.Southey. C) R.Southey, W.Wordsworth. D) S.Coleridge, W.Wordworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) S.Coleridge, W.Wordworth. 53. Who wrote The Devil and Tom Walker? A) Edgar Allen Poe. B) Henry David Thoreau. C) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. D) Washington Irving. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Washington Irving. 54. Which is true about the use of Atmospheric Perspective in art? A) Objects that appear closer are more defined with greater detail. B) Objects that appear further are less defined with less detail. C) Both of these are true. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both of these are true. 55. Name the parts of Forma Sonata A) Exposition, climax and finale. B) Exhibition and development. C) Exhibition and subjects A and B. D) Exhibition, development and exhibition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Exhibition, development and exhibition. 56. Everything in the world, including human beings, is a reflection of the Divine Soul. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 57. Which period was the most creative of Emily Dickinson? A) Pre-1861. B) 1862-1864. C) Post-1867. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1862-1864. 58. The belief that feelings and intuition are superior to logic and reasons relates to ..... A) Romantic sensibility. B) Journey. C) Escape. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romantic sensibility. 59. Which of the following is NOT a trait of the Transcendentalists? A) Believing you could find God anywhere. B) Self-reliance. C) Fear of the devil. D) Appreciation of nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fear of the devil. 60. Demanding great effort or energy A) Strenuous. B) Notorious. C) Prevalent. D) Zeal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Strenuous. ← 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