This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Romantic > Romanticism – Quiz 23 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Romanticism Quiz 23 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. True or False:Romantic subject matter tends to tell people how to live their lives. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 2. What is the characteristic of American Romanticism that prefers unspoiled nature? A) Faith in inner experiences. B) Value of feeling and intuition. C) Championing individual freedom. D) Shunning artificiality of civilization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shunning artificiality of civilization. 3. Romantics value industry over nature. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 4. What are the main ideas of Romanticism? A) Imagination, nature, innocence, and individualism. B) Nature, people, religion, and heaven. C) Synthesis, evaluation, and connection. D) Conforming to the idea's of society. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagination, nature, innocence, and individualism. 5. Which of the following is a characteristic of Impressionism?(Monets Lillies) (Degas Le Absinthe) (Thinking?) A) Creation of Feeling. B) Creation of Houses. C) Creation of Sorrow. D) Creation of Mental Pictures. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Creation of Mental Pictures. 6. Songs of Innocence was written in A) 1789. B) 1788. C) 1786. D) 1787. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1789. 7. What term refers to a period before a war and which, in U.S. history, has commonly been used to describe the pre-Civil War period? A) Nativism. B) Before war. C) Cult of honor. D) Industrialization. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Before war. 8. Decide whether the statement about Romanticism as a literary movement is correct or not.Unity with nature is one way for romantics to achieve renewal of spiritual source. A) YES. B) NO. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) YES. 9. Which of the following statements about Unitarians is best? A) They believed in adhering to strict Christian tradition, such as regular church services and male clergy. B) They claimed that art and literature distracted individuals from religious spirituality. C) They believed that the inherent sin in human nature could only be purified through the natural world. D) They were positive about the possibility of human beings. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They were positive about the possibility of human beings. 10. What was happening in America during the Romantic Time Period? A) WW2. B) Industrialization. C) Civil War. D) Ww1. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Industrialization. 11. The Romantic movement led to a great deal of social reform, including abolition of child labor. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 12. One similarity between Thoreau and McCandless is A) They both take fishing equipment and go live in a cabin. B) Both grew up in Massachusetts. C) Both died of food poisoning-hate those potato plants!. D) Both tried to simplify their lives. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both tried to simplify their lives. 13. The following instruments were included in the orchestra A) Violin, harp, cello, counterbass, viola. B) Kettle drum, French horn, clarinet, flute. C) Piccolo, English horn, bass clarinet, contrabassoon, tubas. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Piccolo, English horn, bass clarinet, contrabassoon, tubas. 14. Which of the following is not included in the Five I's of Romanticism? A) Intuition. B) Inspiration. C) Innocence. D) Individuality. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Innocence. 15. Romanticism is based on the 5 "I's" which of these is NOT a shared belief with the Transcendentalists? A) Intuition. B) Imagination. C) Inspiration from nature. D) Inner experience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagination. 16. What is a Romantic Hero? A) Someone who saves the day and gets the girl. B) An innocent, solitary person with a sense of honor and no formal training. C) Everyone's best friend who looks out for the common good and the welfare of the society. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An innocent, solitary person with a sense of honor and no formal training. 17. What is unique about the Romanticism style? A) Portrayed only what they could see & experience featuring the working class & common everyday world. B) About great adventures & heroism emotional. C) Overly emotional & dramatic lighting. D) Classical influences Clean, Crisp, hard edged style. E) Whimsical, elaborate, & pastel colors. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) About great adventures & heroism emotional. 18. Fiberglass makes excellent roofing, aluminum is also a popular material. A) Correct. B) Comma splice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Comma splice. 19. The most flamboyant of the Big Six was A) Wordsworth. B) Coleridge. C) Keats. D) Byron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Byron. 20. Late Romantic lyric poetry was especially inspired by: A) The pastoral ideal of nature. B) Nature in its wilder form. C) Towns and cities. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nature in its wilder form. 21. What big question represents the theme of this poem? A) How do people handle loss?. B) Why do people dream?. C) What does it take to be a survivor?. D) What are you willing to sacrifice?. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) How do people handle loss?. 22. Melville, Poe, and Hawthorne disagreed with Transcendentalists about optimism. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 23. After publishing his autobiography, he left for England for two years on a speaking tour. When he returned, he had enough money to purchase his freedom. A) W.E.B. Du Bois. B) Nat Turner. C) James Fremont. D) Frederick Douglass. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Frederick Douglass. 24. Which quotation from "The Cask of Amontillado" is an example of verbal irony? A) "The man wore motley.". B) "I drink, " Fortunato said, "to the buried that repose around us." "And I to your long life." Montresor. C) "The wine sparkled in his eyes and the bells jingled.". D) "A succession of loud and shrill screams, bursting suddenly from the throat of the chained from, seemed to thrust me violently back.". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "I drink, " Fortunato said, "to the buried that repose around us." "And I to your long life." Montresor. 25. An etude is a piece for piano created A) To improve the learners playing technique. B) To put in evidence the skills of the virtuoso. C) To show how much good the composer is. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To improve the learners playing technique. 26. Fake, pretend, false A) Spare. B) Faux. C) Tact. D) Incompetent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Faux. 27. Romanticism celebrated all of the following except ..... A) Industrial growth. B) Nature. C) Visceral feeling. D) Imagination. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Industrial growth. 28. What is the main lesson of the story? A) Marriage is sacred. B) Greed leads to misery. C) Prayer makes everything ok. D) Money = happiness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Greed leads to misery. 29. What Romantic element is being used the following passage? "But the family were glad again when they perceived that the latch was lifted by some traveller, whose footsteps had been unheard amid the dreary blast which heralded his approach, and wailed as he was entering, and went moaning away from the door." A) Nature of the mountain. B) Isolation of the family. C) Instincts of the traveller. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Isolation of the family. 30. Who wrote Cross of Snow? A) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. B) John Greenleaf Whittier. C) William Cullen Bryant. D) James Russell Lowell. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 31. What is the significance of emotion in English Romanticism? A) Emotion has no significance in English Romanticism. B) Emotion is a central theme in English Romanticism. C) English Romanticism focuses on logic and reason instead of emotion. D) Emotion is only a minor aspect of English Romanticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emotion is a central theme in English Romanticism. 32. According to "Thanatopsis, " what should people do when they feel afraid of death? A) Keep very busy and think about life. B) Go into Nature and listen to what Nature teaches. C) Read poetry about Nature outdoors under the sky. D) Spend plenty of time with friends and family. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Go into Nature and listen to what Nature teaches. 33. Romantics saw science as the highest expression of the imagination. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 34. Songs of Experience express the idea that the loss of childhood leads to desperation. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 35. The Bayreuth Festival features works by this composer. A) Mussorgsky. B) Prince. C) Brahms. D) Wagner. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wagner. 36. What time period did the American Romantics take place? A) 1600s. B) 1776. C) 1990s. D) 1800-1860s. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1800-1860s. 37. The Romantic poet who has most profoundly felt and expressed the connection of the soul with nature is A) Keats. B) Coleridge. C) Words worth. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Words worth. 38. Marie Taglioni represented the lightness of this fantastic being by dancing on tip toes wearing a tutu. A) Mermaid. B) Fairy. C) Sylph. D) Spirit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sylph. 39. What is the main point of "Nature" (the poem) A) Even though you diem, nature continues to move on. B) Just because you die, doesn't mean you still don't contribute to nature. C) Nature is a source of joy, however the cities take away from its beauty. D) Nature moves on even when you die. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nature is a source of joy, however the cities take away from its beauty. 40. True or false:literary Romanticism often deals with escapist subject matter. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 41. Which of the following choices best emphasizes a principle observation of the Romantic period? A) Love. B) Art and Beauty. C) Logic. D) Math. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Art and Beauty. 42. The collection of poems "Lyrical Ballads" was written by ..... A) Blake and Coleridge. B) Coleridge and Wordsworth. C) Blake and Byron. D) Wordsworth and Byron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Coleridge and Wordsworth. 43. Through-composed form refers to compositions where new music and melodies are written for each new stanza or verse. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 44. What is the movement of people from rural areas to cities called? A) Urbanization. B) Road tripping. C) Vacationing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Urbanization. 45. Decide whether the statement about Romanticism as a literary movement is correct or not.Romanticism rejects the idea of reason and enlightenment; hence, shedding light to emotion, intuition, and imagination. A) NO. B) YES. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) YES. 46. The Enlightenment and the industrialism were movements that: A) Prioritized reason and rationality over emotion and creativity. B) Prioritized emotion and creativity over reason and rationality. C) Made people happy. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prioritized reason and rationality over emotion and creativity. 47. What is the supernatural and mystical elements in English Romanticism? A) Themes of war and conflict. B) Themes of urban life and cityscapes. C) Themes of technology and industrialization. D) Themes of nature, the supernatural, and the inner world of the imagination. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Themes of nature, the supernatural, and the inner world of the imagination. 48. "In the darkness, we find courage. In the face of adversity, we find courage. When all seems lost, it is courage that lights our way and guides us through the shadows."Question:Which rhetorical device is evident in the passage, where the word "courage" is repeated for emphasis, emphasizing its significance in various contexts? A) Allusion. B) Anaphora. C) Repetition. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 49. Who wrote The First Snowfall? A) Henry David Thoreau. B) Washington Irving. C) James Russell Lowell. D) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) James Russell Lowell. 50. Which of the following sentences is a good paraphrase of these lines in "Thanatopsis" ?" ..... and what if thou withdraw/In silence from the living, and no friend Take note of thy departure? All that breathe/Will share thy destiny" A) If you die soon, your family and friends will die shortly thereafter. B) No matter how many friends you have, you will inevitably go through death alone. C) If, when you die no one mourns your death, remember that all living things must die too. D) Even if it frightens you, you must accept that everyone dies sooner or later. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) If, when you die no one mourns your death, remember that all living things must die too. 51. In "Ode to a Grecian Urn" why does the poet use questions in the first stanza? A) To convey his interest in the processes used to create the urn. B) To express his curiosity about the stories that are told by the urn. C) To convey his confusion about the religious practices of ancient people. D) To express his unfamiliarity with the events of ancient history. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To express his curiosity about the stories that are told by the urn. 52. Wrote the early successful Gothic horror novel Frankenstein A) Mary Shelley. B) Mary Anne. C) Mary I. D) Mary Queen of Scots. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mary Shelley. 53. Easily understood A) Supposition. B) Lucid. C) Emblem. D) Indeterminate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lucid. 54. Analysis of Romanticism literature:How does Romanticism literature emphasize the importance of individualism and emotion? A) Romanticism literature emphasizes the importance of individualism and emotion through the rejection of personal experiences and feelings. B) Romanticism literature emphasizes the importance of individualism and emotion through scientific facts and logic. C) Romanticism literature emphasizes the importance of individualism and emotion through the focus on personal experiences, feelings, and imagination. D) Romanticism literature emphasizes the importance of individualism and emotion through conformity and societal norms. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Romanticism literature emphasizes the importance of individualism and emotion through the focus on personal experiences, feelings, and imagination. 55. Calhoun and other defenders of slavery claimed, African Americans could not be expected to work under the conditions of freedom. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 56. What are the three essential characteristics or principles of Transcendntalism? A) People are inherently evil and nature deceives. B) Material things will lead you to want more and nature will not. C) The good in this earth is in good people and the most colorful flowers of nature. D) Individualism, idealism, and the divinity of nature are essential. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Individualism, idealism, and the divinity of nature are essential. 57. In "Resistance to Civil Government, " Why did Thoreau quit paying his taxes? A) He did not want government to exist. B) He did not want to support a war that would further slavery. C) He was living off the grid in a cabin in the woods. D) He did not want to support the industrial revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He did not want to support a war that would further slavery. 58. A common theme among some of the most widely known romantic poets is their acceptance and approval of the French Revolution. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 59. Innovation that became a tool for scientific investigation and led to the development of motion pictures A) Cartography. B) Phenotypology. C) Photography. D) Capsology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Photography. 60. Typical Spanish opera genre. A) Copla. B) Tonadilla. C) Operetta. D) Operetta. 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