This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Romantic > Romanticism – Quiz 24 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Romanticism Quiz 24 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which aspect of Realism is best shown by the following quote? "It's very hard to clean the snow away, particular when it's been on the ground some time. It's awful cold and gives us chilblains on our feet." A) Difficult living conditions. B) Difficult working conditions. C) London's weather conditions. D) Details of character. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Difficult working conditions. 2. Which group of Romantic writers focused on the darker side of human nature and the supernatural? A) Realists. B) Bright Romantics. C) Dark Romantics. D) Transcendentalists. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dark Romantics. 3. Characteristic Feature:Early Skyscrapers A) Romanticism. B) Revival. C) Rococo. D) Neoclassism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Revival. 4. What invention was one of the most important in the Industrial Revolution? A) Newspapers. B) The steam engine. C) The printing press. D) The airplane. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The steam engine. 5. What LITERARY DEVICE is here? "Henry was a lion on the battlefield." A) Metaphor. B) Illusion. C) Foreshadowing. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 6. Which piece is an example of gothic or dark romanticism? A) "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". B) "Tell the Truth, but Tell it Slant". C) "The Tide Rises ". D) Fahrenheit 451. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". 7. Which of the following ideas is NOT a characteristic of romanticism? A) Optimism. B) Practicality. C) Love of nature. D) Mysticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Practicality. 8. Romanticism emphasized inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the ..... A) Individual. B) World. C) Group. D) Government. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Individual. 9. Downplays rules, authority, and traditions A) Romanticism. B) Transcendentalism. C) Dark Romanticism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Transcendentalism. 10. What is a trait of the speaker in "Woman of the Nineteenth Century" is viewed as a fault in other women of the time? A) Heroic. B) Self-reliance. C) Independence. D) Manly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Independence. 11. Masculine symbol in Anne Bradstreet's poem "To Her Husband ..... " A) Sun. B) Moon. C) Bull. D) Document. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sun. 12. The Romantic era was during ..... A) 1800-1860. B) 1860-1900. C) 1620-1800. D) 1900-1950. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1800-1860. 13. The music for this healthy physical exercise is one of the most important instrumental repertoires. A) Dance. B) Waltz. C) Ballet. D) Minuet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dance. 14. The main pillars of Romanticism are A) Order, Simplicity and Clarity. B) Individualism, Nationalism and Exoticism. C) Restraint of feelings, formality and sequence. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Individualism, Nationalism and Exoticism. 15. Fireside Poets focused on important social issues like: A) Witch trials. B) The Holocaust. C) Communism. D) Abolition of slavery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Abolition of slavery. 16. Which is not a characteristic of Romanticisim? A) Value intuition over reasoning. B) Educated sophistication is better than youthful innocence. C) Society = CorruptionNature = Truth, beauty, and freedom. D) Inspiration found in supernatural tales and myths. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Educated sophistication is better than youthful innocence. 17. The idee fixe is also known as the A) Recurring theme or leitmotif. B) Adagio. C) Deemed. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Recurring theme or leitmotif. 18. What is the "great error in Rip's" character? A) Playfulness. B) Gossiping. C) Laziness. D) Obedience. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Laziness. 19. The raven is a symbol of ..... A) Death. B) A messenger. C) An omen. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 20. Characteristic Features:Decorated with scrolls, vines, shell-shapes, and delicate geometric patterns. A) Romanticism. B) Neoclassism. C) Revival. D) Rococo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rococo. 21. A reference within a work of literature to something outside of it: A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Hyperbole. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 22. In "The Fall of The House of Usher, " Roderick and Madeline are A) Husband and wife. B) Twins. C) Father and daughter. D) Best friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Twins. 23. True or false. Romanticism started in the 17th century. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 24. Who was not a Gothic writer? A) Edgar Allan Poe. B) Nathaniel Hawthorne. C) Herman Melville. D) Patrick Henry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Patrick Henry. 25. What did transcendentalists emphasize in order to connect with God and the universe? A) Rational thinking and empirical evidence. B) Physical rituals and religious practices. C) Personal intuition and spiritual experiences. D) Social conformity and external guidance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personal intuition and spiritual experiences. 26. The following line is an example of alliteration. A) "Doubting dreaming dreams no one dared to dream before.". B) "But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only". C) But the Raven still beguiling all my fancy into smiling". D) "'Wrecth, ' I cried, 'thy God hath lent thee-by these angels he hath sent thee." '. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Doubting dreaming dreams no one dared to dream before.". 27. How much of the total wealth did the European elites possess? A) 60-70%. B) 40-50%. C) 30-40%. D) 20-30%. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 30-40%. 28. "TMBV": "The Minister's Black Veil" is a parable, which means that characters, events, and details of setting A) Are described in realistic detail. B) Are gloomy and sometimes terrifying. C) Are usually historical in nature. D) Are simplified to teach a moral lesson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Are simplified to teach a moral lesson. 29. What feeling does Irving want to arouse with the setting of his story "The Devil and Tom Walker?" A) Hope. B) Anger. C) Optimism. D) Foreboding. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Foreboding. 30. The first cat's name was: A) Ember. B) Zeus. C) Poseidon. D) Pluto. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pluto. 31. Self-reliance and individualism must outweigh external authority and blind conformity to custom and tradition. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 32. According to the text, the journey in American Romantic literature can best be characterized as A) Escaping duty in order to do what one pleases. B) Leaving civilization and entering the world of nature. C) Rejecting traditional poetry and inventing new forms. D) Abandoning all intellectual pursuits for a frontier life. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Leaving civilization and entering the world of nature. 33. The romantic authors like Emerson, Bryant, and Thoreau would have rejected the idea of "manifest destiny" and found the results of it immoral. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 34. Why does Tom think the figure in the forest is the devil? A) He has a tail. B) He has red eyes. C) He has soot on his face. D) He has no head. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He has red eyes. 35. To which of these sources are you more likely to look for solutions to your life's problems? A) Faith & religion. B) Science & technology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Faith & religion. 36. Hector Beriloz was a Romantic A) Singer. B) Artist. C) Architect. D) Author. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Singer. 37. In "The Chambered Nautilus, " the poet develops an extended metaphor comparing the empty shell to A) An estate that has been recently robbed. B) A new building that will soon be occupied. C) A body that once housed a soul. D) The lack of meaning in his own life. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A body that once housed a soul. 38. Romantic artists drew inspiration from the monuments of ancient Greece and Roman. A) Ture. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 39. What are the three camps of Transcendentalism? A) Fireside PoetsGothicsTranscendentalists. B) Fireside PoetsTranscendentalistsNew Romantics. C) Fireside PoetsGothicsNew Romantics. D) GothicsTranscendentalistsGrateful Dead. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fireside PoetsGothicsTranscendentalists. 40. What does the letter-writer want, that he's never had before, based on letter #2? A) A wife. B) A friend. C) A child. D) A donut. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A friend. 41. Which of the following is largely identified with the artistic movement known as romanticism? A) Chamber music. B) Scientific method. C) Gothic Novel. D) Daguerreotype. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gothic Novel. 42. When the narrator tells the thoughts and feelings of only one character, it is called: A) 3rd Person Subjective. B) 3rd Person Omniscient. C) 3rd Person Objective. D) 3rd Person Limited. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3rd Person Limited. 43. These writers often wrote satiric essays poking fun at society. A) Romantic. B) Neoclassical. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Neoclassical. 44. Gothic literature also focused on the mysterious, the haunted, and the ..... A) Logical. B) Supernatural. C) Illusions of time. D) Domestication. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Supernatural. 45. Why does Dickens point out that the cook master of the orphanage is "a fat, healthy man" ? A) To contrast the good health of the adults with the poor health of the orphans. B) To show what the boys will look like once they've been there long enough. C) To hint that he eats a lot of the gruel when he is supposed to serve it to the boys. D) To point out how much older than the boys he is in a polite manner. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To contrast the good health of the adults with the poor health of the orphans. 46. Best known for demonstrating scenes from the life of Frederick the Great. A) Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins. B) Rudolf the red nose. C) Honore-Victorin Daumier. D) Adolph Von Menzel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Adolph Von Menzel. 47. Henry David Thoreau's essay "On Civil Disobedience" urged Americans to do what? A) Live in unity with nature. B) Violently overthrow an unjust society. C) Non-violently disobey unjust laws. D) Refused to pay any taxes because "taxation is theft". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Non-violently disobey unjust laws. 48. Which element of absence is present in the following quote? "I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture ..... a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees ..... very gradually ..... I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever." A) Them. B) Unconscious. C) Unexpected. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unconscious. 49. Which famous American author was NOT one of the Fireside Poets? A) William Cullen Bryant. B) John Greenleaf Whittier. C) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. D) Henry David Thoreau. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Henry David Thoreau. 50. Which of the following is a key source of inspiration in English Romanticism? A) Urbanization. B) Industrialization. C) Technology. D) Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nature. 51. Ralph Waldo Emerson A) Romanticism. B) Transcendentalism. C) Dark romanticism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Transcendentalism. 52. Describing the complete destruction of the world. A) Apocalyptic. B) Cynical. C) Impetuous. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apocalyptic. 53. According to Wordsworth, poetry must focus on the supernatural and the influence of memory on society A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 54. What time does the Raven take place? A) Midnight. B) 10:00 pm. C) Dawn. D) Noon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Midnight. 55. Match the following characteristic to its appropriate age.City life corrupts people A) Puritanism. B) Age of Reason. C) Romanticism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Romanticism. 56. What war took place? A) American Revolution. B) WW2. C) French Revolution. D) Korean War. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) French Revolution. 57. "She visits my grave when the night winds wail" This is an example of: A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Personification. D) Dissonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 58. What were the main characteristics of Transcendentalism? A) More emphasis on nature and breaking away from social reform. B) Moral lessons, specifically for kids. C) Imagination used to question truth or reality. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) More emphasis on nature and breaking away from social reform. 59. Which of the following works is NOT a Romantic-era piece of literature? A) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. B) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. C) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. D) The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. 60. Tom Walker's wife is best described as A) Very generous and much loved by her neighbors. B) Kind toward her husband, but cruel to others. C) Yearning for companionship. D) A fierce shrew, always nagging and yelling. 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