This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Romantic > Romanticism – Quiz 21 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Romanticism Quiz 21 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Why does Ichabod Crane keep his clothes bundled up in a knapsack? A) He is too cheap to buy a traveling bag for his possessions, preferring to stuff them in an old knapsack instead. B) His good luggage was stolen and all he could find to carry his possessions was an old knapsck.a. C) He moves from place to place staying with his students' families, so he needs to be efficient and ready to go at all times. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He moves from place to place staying with his students' families, so he needs to be efficient and ready to go at all times. 2. "TMBV":Why does Mr. Hooper's sudden adoption of a black veil make his congregation uneasy? A) It reminds them of his sinfulness. B) They have no explanation for why he wears the veil. C) They think he means them harm. D) They think he's had a terrible accident. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They have no explanation for why he wears the veil. 3. ..... is a religious movement that perceived God as a singular being and had an optimistic view of human nature A) Free verse. B) Unitarianism. C) The Dark Romantics. D) Essay. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unitarianism. 4. Realists hoped to create a change in society by ..... A) Exposing the realities of the working class and poor in order to create empathy for that group. B) Studying nature in the hopes of protecting the wilderness and a more rural lifestyle. C) Showing the reading public that the poor were lazy and inferior. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exposing the realities of the working class and poor in order to create empathy for that group. 5. Nature was all of the following during Romanticism EXCEPT A) A refuge. B) A source of knowledge for the primitive. C) A force bent on destroying man. D) A revelation of God to the individual. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A force bent on destroying man. 6. In what way did the ideas of the Declaration of Sentiments differ from the ideas found in the Declaration of Independence? A) The Declaration of Sentiments was written by Thomas Jefferson. B) The Declaration of Independence granted voting rights to men and women. C) The Declaration of Independence supported the idea of nullification. D) The Declaration of Sentiments included the equality of men and women. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Declaration of Sentiments included the equality of men and women. 7. Who is considered the Father of American Transcendentalism? A) Herman Melville. B) Walt Whitman. C) Ralph Waldo Emerson. D) Henry David Thoreau. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 8. Enthusiastic devotion; intense enthusiasm A) Zeal. B) Subsequent. C) Wary. D) Dilemma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Zeal. 9. According to Wordsworth poetry can provoke suspension of disbelief. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 10. Wordsworth was made Poet Laureate in 1843 A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. Although he did not come out of a magic lamp but from a conservatory, the romantic composer was regarded as such. A) Conductor. B) Virtuoso. C) Fantastic. D) Genius. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Genius. 12. Romanticists were against ..... life and they put all their forces to call of man to go back to nature. A) Urban. B) Coutryside. C) Peaceful. D) Hellish. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Urban. 13. ..... is the emotional atmosphere of a piece of writing, created through diction, figurative language, and other choices A) Tone. B) Diction. C) Mood. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mood. 14. Romanticism was a movement that celebrated individualism A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 15. While this group had joined the abolition movement from the start, their participation during the Anti-Slavery Society's meeting in 1840 would lead to the fracturing within the abolitionist movement. A) African American slaves. B) Immigrants. C) Freed African Americans. D) Women. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Women. 16. In "The Black Cat" the name of the narrator's first pet cat is ..... A) Boots. B) Pluto. C) Christopher. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pluto. 17. Most of the characters in Dark Romantic stories live very (a) lives. A) A bleak. B) Tempest. C) Emaciated. D) Pallid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A bleak. 18. "He's a regular Romeo" is an example of a/an: A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Allusion. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 19. The American Romantic Hero has a sense of honor based on society's rules. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 20. What kind of imagery did Bryant use to describe dying in his poem, "Thanatopsis" ? A) Lying down to sleep in a soft bed. B) Flying. C) Swimming. D) Living forever. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lying down to sleep in a soft bed. 21. How did the 1st Amendment help ministers like Finney? A) Freedom of religion prevented the government from passing laws banning the new religious practices. B) It protected their right to a speedy trial. C) It protected them when they wrote controversial essays. D) It gave them the right to bare arms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Freedom of religion prevented the government from passing laws banning the new religious practices. 22. What is the most notable about both Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson compared to other American Romantics? A) They both experimented with poetic forms. B) They both meditated on death a lot more than other American Romantics. C) They both talked about nature a lot. D) They both wrote epic poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They both experimented with poetic forms. 23. Romanticism values reason and logic over feelings and intuition A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 24. Who from these composers were known as prodigy children? A) Tchaikovsky and Mozart. B) Mozart and Glinka. C) Mozart, Beethoven and Clara Schumann. D) Mozart and Haydn. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mozart, Beethoven and Clara Schumann. 25. Which of the following statements about Walden is not true? A) Walden led to Henry David Thoreau's arrest. B) Walden includes Henry David Thoreau's observations about nature and himself. C) Walden models descriptive writing with strong, specific details and sensory words. D) Walden was written by the shores of a pond on property that belonged to Thoreau's mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Walden led to Henry David Thoreau's arrest. 26. Which of the following statements best expresses the central idea of "The Raven" ? A) Happiness is fleeting. B) Grief is a manifestation of insanity. C) The narrator will grieve Lenore's death forever. D) The poet will never sleep again. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The narrator will grieve Lenore's death forever. 27. What is an utopian community? A) Groups of people who tried to form a perfect society. B) A community based on "American Progress". C) A Groups of people that share the beliefs of the Native American community. D) Community based on the theory of nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Groups of people who tried to form a perfect society. 28. Incidental music is A) Music composed without the intention of the composer. B) Music specially composed to be heard at certain points during the performance of a play, opera or movie. C) Music without a story. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Music specially composed to be heard at certain points during the performance of a play, opera or movie. 29. What French romantic writer wrote "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" ? A) Mary Shelley. B) Wilhelm Grimm. C) Victor Hugo. D) Lord Byron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Victor Hugo. 30. Fill in the blank:Transcendentalists believed in the power of ..... to transcend the physical world to understand important truths about the self, God, and other important matters. A) The mind. B) Science. C) God. D) Self. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Self. 31. Historically, the American Romantic Movement was preceded (came before in time) by the A) WWI. B) Revolutionary War. C) French/Indian War. D) Civil War. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Revolutionary War. 32. The dark romantics explored all of the following themes EXCEPT A) The fight for survival against nature. B) The dichotomy between good and evil. C) The effects of guilt and sin. D) The descent into madness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The fight for survival against nature. 33. Which of these is an important theme in American Romanticism? A) Emotions. B) Science. C) Rationality. D) Industrialization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emotions. 34. Romanticism covered practically the whole 18th century and it was the most brilliant period in the history of music. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 35. What did the Indian Removal Act give the government the ability to do? A) Give Indians new territory in South Carolina. B) Give Indians new territory out west in exchange for their territory in the land east of the Mississippi River. C) Force out all Native Americans immediately. D) Give colonists new territory in Oklahoma. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Give Indians new territory out west in exchange for their territory in the land east of the Mississippi River. 36. Which of following is Not a comfort in "Thanatopsis" ? A) You will be with many, many others. B) You will be part of rivers and trees. C) You will be with kings and other patriarchs. D) You will sing with the angels. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) You will sing with the angels. 37. How was American Romanticism different from European Romanticism? A) American Romanticism valued city life more than European Romanticism. B) American Romanticism included more poetry. C) They were the same. D) American Romanticism had a sense of limitless frontier unlike European Romanticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) American Romanticism had a sense of limitless frontier unlike European Romanticism. 38. How id the portrait that hung in the tavern change while Rip slept? A) The portrait was removed when the owner's wife passed. B) The owner's wife died, so he hung a new portrait of his new wife. C) The King's portrait was changed for the new American President's portrait. D) The owners changed, so the portrait changed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The King's portrait was changed for the new American President's portrait. 39. In "The Oval Portrait, " why do you think the painter didn't notice his wife's declining health? A) He was too fixated on creating his painting of her. B) She continuously assured him that she was fine. C) She never showed any signs of being sick. D) He wasn't around her to notice since he was so busy with his work. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was too fixated on creating his painting of her. 40. Which time period are we currently studying in British literature? A) 1800-present. B) 1750s-1830s. C) 1500s-1650s. D) 1670-1750s. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1750s-1830s. 41. The Fireside Poets got their name by A) Performing their poems around campfires. B) Having their poems read around the fireplace. C) Depicting fire and brimstone imagery in their poems. D) Dropping rhymes that were straight fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Having their poems read around the fireplace. 42. Romantics portrayed more ..... than the previous eras. A) Emotion. B) Love. C) Loyalty. D) Spirituality. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emotion. 43. "O world! O life! O time! On whose last steps I climb. Trembling at that where I had stood before; When will return the glory of your prime? No more-Oh, never more!" This is a line from A) William Wordsworth's I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. B) Percy Bysshe Shelley's A Lament. C) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. D) John Keats' To Autumn. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Percy Bysshe Shelley's A Lament. 44. A nice word said A) Compliment. B) Faux. C) Spare. D) Clear. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compliment. 45. From which group of writers is Mrs. Alanis's favorite author from? A) The Early Romantics. B) The Transcendentalists. C) The Brooding Romantics. D) The Fireside Poets. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Brooding Romantics. 46. What is the significance of frontier 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: C) Vast expanse, freedom, no geographic limitations. 47. All describes Montresor in "The Cask of Amontillado" except A) Unreliable narrator. B) Cold, ruthless killer. C) Forgiving. D) Vengeful(wants to get revenge). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Forgiving. 48. Transcendentalism was part of which literary movement? A) Colonialism. B) Rationalism and the Enlightenment. C) American Realism. D) American Romaticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) American Romaticism. 49. Which is NOT one of the new strands of thought that emerged during the Romantic period? A) Syllogism. B) Idealism. C) Primitivism. D) Transcendentalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Syllogism. 50. The narrator, in desperation, asks if there is balm in Gilead. This is an allusion to what? A) Greek mythology. B) The Bible/Heaven. C) Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. D) Shakespeare's Sonnets. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Bible/Heaven. 51. Spontaneous feelings and intuition are superior to deliberate intellectualism and rationality. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 52. On the video, the artist mentioned that romanticism was a relationship between ..... A) Men and women. B) Mankind and nature. C) A lovely couple. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mankind and nature. 53. Which of the following is not a quality of Romantic literature? A) Based on science and reasoning. B) Appreciated purity of childhood. C) Saw nature as spiritual and divine. D) Glorified the past and critiqued the present. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Based on science and reasoning. 54. Which of the following is a Romanticist belief? A) God over nature. B) Feeling and reason over poetry. C) Reason over common sense. D) Intuition over reason. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Intuition over reason. 55. Which of the following did Romantics NOT like/appreciate? A) Nature. B) Formal Education. C) Childlike Innocence. D) Intuition and Imagination. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Formal Education. 56. The good, the bad, and the ugly A) Realism. B) Romanticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Realism. 57. What is the term coined to describe the hysterical reaction of audiences experienced during concerts by Liszt? A) Wanderlust. B) Bayreuth. C) Wunderkind. D) Flour mania. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flour mania. 58. Were the painters of the Romantic Period more worried about being technically correct or inspired? A) Technically correct. B) Inspired. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inspired. 59. Most of Beethoven's late works are symphonies. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 60. The quote " ..... and sings the tune without the words-And never stops-at all" is from ..... A) "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". B) "Hope is the Thing With Feathers". C) "The Black Cat". D) None of above. 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