This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Romantic > Romanticism – Quiz 22 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Romanticism Quiz 22 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who were the principal poets of the Romantic movement in England? A) William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. B) William Blake and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. C) William Wordsworth and William Blake. D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Blake. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 2. Napoleon was defeated during the A) Industrial Revolution. B) French Revolution. C) American Revolution. D) Battle of Waterloo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Battle of Waterloo. 3. Which of the following pairs is the example of slant rhyme in the following poem? This is my letter to the WorldThat never wrote to Me ..... The simple News that Nature told ..... With tender Majesty Her Message is committedTo Hands I cannot see ..... For love of Her ..... Sweet ..... countrymen ..... Judge tenderly ..... of Me A) Me/Majesty. B) Committed/countrymen. C) World/told. D) See/Me. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) World/told. 4. American Transcendentalists did NOT like which of the following? A) Nature. B) Slavery. C) Non Conformity. D) Independence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Slavery. 5. A short nonfiction work that presents a single main idea, or thesis, about a particular topic. A) Storyline. B) Essay. C) Climax. D) Romanticism. E) Transcendentalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Essay. 6. In Romantic Escapism, writers used one of two ways to "rise to higher ..... ". A) Scientific achievements. B) Truths. C) Civilizations. D) Cities. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Truths. 7. GA11RL6:Explain the significance of the historical and cultural context in understanding Romanticism literature. A) Focusing only on the personal lives of the Romantic writers. B) Studying the scientific advancements of the time period instead. C) Ignoring the historical and cultural context completely. D) Understanding the social, political, and cultural influences that shaped the works of Romantic writers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Understanding the social, political, and cultural influences that shaped the works of Romantic writers. 8. The goal of the American Colonization Society was A) To free the slaves. B) To send slaves out west. C) To encourage slaves to rebel against their masters. D) To send slaves back to Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To send slaves back to Africa. 9. True or false. One of the popular themes of Romanticism was fairytales. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 10. In his final years, Beethoven was ..... A) Blind. B) Deaf. C) Blind and deaf. D) Neither blind nor deaf. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deaf. 11. Romantic writers: A) Stressed man's rational side. B) Emphasised imagination and emotion. C) Took their primary inspiration from classical Greek and Roman authors. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emphasised imagination and emotion. 12. The following are the principles of Romanticism, except: A) Interest in the Common Man. B) Idealization of Women. C) Celebration of Nature. D) Personification and Pathetic Fallacy. E) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) All of the above. 13. The Fireside poets ..... A) Used a typically English theme and form. B) Created a uniquely "American" voice. C) Emphasized sophisticated real-life figures. D) Valued logic over emotion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Used a typically English theme and form. 14. In "The Devil and Tom Walker, " what is one way Tom thinks to escape his antagonist? A) Hide in the deep, dark woods. B) Bury him alive in the catacombs. C) Tie him up. D) Bury his horse upside-down. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bury his horse upside-down. 15. Upon close examination, we realize that realism planted the seeds for many of America's core values. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 16. Unlike Enlightenment, Romanticism focused on: A) Emotion. B) Society. C) Craftsmanship. D) Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emotion. 17. Who were some important transcendentalists? A) Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson. B) Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun. C) Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau. D) Horace Mann, William Loyd Garrison, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau. 18. Whos is considered the father of gothic literature? A) Nathaniel Hawthorne. B) Emily Dickinson. C) Edgar Allan Poe. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Edgar Allan Poe. 19. In the Raven, what are 3 words from the 1st stanza that help establish the tone? A) Dreary, weak, weary. B) Napping, tapping, rapping. C) Quaint, curious and forgotten. D) Midnight, pondered, muttered. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dreary, weak, weary. 20. Which of the following did Beethoven compose during his early career? A) Piano Compositions. B) String Quartets. C) Symphonies. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 21. Middle-class reformers focused on WHAT for the middle class? A) Housing needs. B) Hairstyle needs. C) Vacation needs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Housing needs. 22. "Manifest Destiny" is ..... A) Changing the country to a dictatorship. B) The idea that it was the destiny of the United States to expand to the Pacific Ocean and the Mexican territory. C) The Idea that the United States should control England and other countries. D) The United States should have more slaves. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The idea that it was the destiny of the United States to expand to the Pacific Ocean and the Mexican territory. 23. In "A Psalm of Life, " what is Longfellow saying we should do with our lives? A) Don't do anything. B) Help others. C) Live life to the fullest. D) Live life going through the motions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Live life to the fullest. 24. How did Neoclassical artists believe how you should view art? A) By thinking. B) By feeling. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) By thinking. 25. While walking in the forest, Tom Walker heard a clamorous sound that gave him quite the fright. What does the word "clamorous" mean in the sentence above? A) A rough sound. B) A dull sound. C) A loud, confusing noise. D) To cut off or out. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A loud, confusing noise. 26. Decide whether the statement about Romanticism as a literary movement is correct or not.Romantic poets give emphasis on society to be able to explain how the human behavior human changes overtime. A) YES. B) NO. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) NO. 27. Realists believed that humanities freedom of choices was limited by A) No one. B) God. C) Outside forces. D) The government. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Outside forces. 28. What is a Symphonic Poem? A) A romantic symphony. B) A piece for solo voice and orchestra. C) Piece for orchestra that describes a story using music. D) Poem sung with musical accompaniment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Piece for orchestra that describes a story using music. 29. Who is considered one of the first Romantic painters? A) John Constable. B) Caspar David Friedrich. C) William Turner. D) Theodore Gericault. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Caspar David Friedrich. 30. Romanticism can be broadly referred to as ..... A) A movement across the wealthy. B) A movement for singers. C) A movement in the scientific realm. D) A movement across the arts. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A movement across the arts. 31. Nationalism is based on its study and the use of its musical characteristics as a symbol of identity. A) Realism. B) Leitmotif. C) Nationalism. D) Folklore. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Folklore. 32. All of the following are traits of the American Romantic Hero EXCEPT A) Innocent. B) Youthful. C) Reflective. D) Obedient. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Obedient. 33. The regular rhythmic pattern in poetry determined by the number of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line. A) Couplet. B) Description. C) Meter. D) Satire. E) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meter. 34. Romanticism valued all of these but ..... A) Supernatural. B) Nature. C) Society. D) Feeling. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Society. 35. Who wrote the Ministers Black Veil? A) Nathaniel Hawthorne. B) Edgar Allen Poe. C) Henry Longfellow. D) Walt Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nathaniel Hawthorne. 36. Why did utopian communities last a short time? A) The Civil War begun. B) Native American attacks. C) Hunger led to starvation and death. D) "Perfect Societies" don't exist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "Perfect Societies" don't exist. 37. This composer spent his short life entirely in Paris. His opera, Carmen was the first important realistic opera. A) Berlioz. B) Bizet. C) Schubert. D) Puccini. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bizet. 38. What does this quote from Self Reliance mean?: "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members ..... the virtue in most request is conformity." A) Society wants you to be unique. B) Society wants you to be a leader. C) Society is an extension of God. D) Society wants its members to conform. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Society wants you to be unique. 39. The P in TPCOASTT helps you understand the poem by A) Providing a prominent summary. B) Putting each sentence into simpler language. C) Painting a picture in your mind. D) Promoting the theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Putting each sentence into simpler language. 40. What is the significance of the growth of industry 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: B) Polarization of north versus south. 41. Which best summarizes the section we read of "Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau? A) Thoreau believes that all people are capable of good and evil. B) Thoreau thinks that no four walls can contain him. C) Thoreau was locked up for one night for refusing to pay his taxes to support war and slavery. D) Thoreau argues that we must violently overthrow any government we don't like. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thoreau was locked up for one night for refusing to pay his taxes to support war and slavery. 42. Which one of Beethoven's nine symphonies changed the historical direction of the symphony? A) Symphomy # 7. B) Symphony # 3-the Eroica. C) Symphony # 4. D) Symphony # 6, the Pastoral. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symphony # 3-the Eroica. 43. During the early 1800s, advances in democratic government included A) Eliminating property ownership as a voting requirement. B) Ending the role of the Electoral College. C) Increasing education and religious requirements for voting. D) Giving states the right to secede from the Union. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eliminating property ownership as a voting requirement. 44. Blake was not successful during his lifetime. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 45. The lied is a song for a soloist voice with a piano accompaniment, written upon a poetic text and with simple structures. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 46. What deeper meaning does the following passage from "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls, " portray? "The little waves, with their soft, white hands, /Efface the footprints in the sands." A) Nature has hands and feet. B) The traveller was hoping to erase evidence. C) Nature continues even though human life does not. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nature continues even though human life does not. 47. Why do Tom and his wife have arguments? A) Because they are cheating on each other. B) Because of the treasure. C) Because they hide stuff from each other. D) Because Tom found the treasure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Because they hide stuff from each other. 48. Which is NOT a quality of Dark Romanticism? A) Exploring how sin affects the mind, soul, and body ( including insanity and dementia). B) Humanity is prone to sin. C) An appreciation for life/beauty. D) Nature is presented as dark and decaying. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An appreciation for life/beauty. 49. Absolute 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: B) Music that is not explicitly "about" anything. 50. Which of the following is NOT properly matched with the artistic movement to which he or she contributed? A) Emile Zola-romanticism. B) Louis Daguerre-realism. C) Ludwig van Beethoven-romanticism. D) Charles Dickens-realism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emile Zola-romanticism. 51. A movement in which artists of Neoclassical period sought to break new ground in the expression of emotion, both subtle and stormy. A) Neoclassicism. B) Impressionism. C) Romanticism. D) Expressionism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Romanticism. 52. Which of the following statements most closely summarizes the central idea of the following passage (paragraph 10)?Whitman's personal beliefs most closely resembled Transcendentalism and he was well versed in the work of Emerson, but he also had a broad understanding of American and European religious traditions, language, and symbolism, which he used stylistically in his poetry. He employed traditional symbols such as the stars, moon, and earth, but also created his own symbology, which included lilacs, the calamus plant, and, of course, grass. Whitman's tone was exuberant and his diction, or word choice, is notable for its eccentricities; he used colloquial words, foreign words, technical words, and sometimes even made up his own words A) Walt Whitman was a revolutionary American poet who embodied the characteristics of the Romantic movements through his work. B) Walt Whitman's work was very different from other poets of the time and he enjoyed experimenting with language in unusual ways. C) Walt Whitman was one of the first artists to popularize the ideas of Romanticism and Transcendentalism in Europe. D) Walt Whitman's work was a direct rejection of popular movements within Romanticism, as he believed that they oppressed artists' natural expression. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Walt Whitman was a revolutionary American poet who embodied the characteristics of the Romantic movements through his work. 53. What country is predominately associated with musical romanticism? A) France. B) Italy. C) Germany. D) United States. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Germany. 54. According to Dickinson, what has never "asked a thing" of her? A) Fortitude. B) Love. C) Hope. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hope. 55. Realism cinema focused on what kind of issues? A) Political. B) Military. C) Social. D) Global. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Social. 56. The American Romantic Hero has a knowledge of people and life based on deep, intuitive understanding, not on formal learning. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 57. Using your knowledge of what Nationalism and Sectionalism is, which one of the two terms may have contributed to the Civil War? A) Nationalism. B) Sectionalism. C) Neither. D) Both. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sectionalism. 58. Belief or assumption A) Pathos. B) Pertinacity. C) Supposition. D) Lucid. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Supposition. 59. At the end of the story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", who are we left thinking is the identity of the Headless Horseman? A) Ichabod Crane. B) Mr. Van Tassel. C) Brom Bones. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brom Bones. 60. What elements of transcendentalism are found in this text? Goodbye-To Wealth's greedy eye, To supple Office low and high, To crowded halls, to court, and street, I'm going to yon green hills, alone, A secret nook in a pleasant land, A) Reliance on personal instinct. B) Reverence for nature, not society. C) Non-conformity. D) Existence of an oversoul. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reverence for nature, not society. ← 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