This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Romantic > Romanticism – Quiz 28 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Romanticism Quiz 28 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Mosquitoes are found in various climates, they thrive in Alaska was well as in the tropics. A) Comma splice. B) Correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comma splice. 2. What is the definition of meter in poetry? A) The use of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words that are close together. B) A pattern of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. C) A type of figurative language in which nonhuman objects are given human qualities. D) The author's attitude toward a subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A pattern of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. 3. In "The Devil and Tom Walker" the woods are used to symbolize A) Goodness. B) Evil. C) Isolation. D) Greed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Evil. 4. Which French painter set sail for Tahiti, hoping to escape everything that is artificial and conventional, and lived in the Pacific South Seas on and off for the rest of his life? A) Charles Baudelaire. B) Francisco Goya. C) Paul Gauguin. D) Thomas Cole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paul Gauguin. 5. How an author proves that they are credible or trustworthy. What makes the author qualified to write about this topic? A) Hyperbole. B) Logos. C) Pathos. D) Ethos. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ethos. 6. The repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence: A) Parallel structure. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallel structure. 7. The fireside poets included one of the first writers to add hints of ..... to his writing as a subtle way to get people thinking and plant seeds of a movement. A) Anti-slavery. B) Women's rights. C) Atheist. D) Democratic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anti-slavery. 8. Reverend Hooper wore his black veil for an (a) amount of time. A) Bleak. B) Melancholy. C) Enshrouded. D) A inordinate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A inordinate. 9. The narrator of "The Black Cat" changes as he drinks and becomes more temperamental. This makes him a: A) Dynamic character. B) Static character. C) Flat character. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dynamic character. 10. How many central ideas were core to the Romantic? A) 1. B) 3. C) Romantics don't need central cores. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3. 11. What started Ralph Waldo Emerson's spiritual journey to Transcendentalism? A) His mother died of TB. B) His wife died young. C) His children died at infancy. D) The hypocrisy of the Church. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His wife died young. 12. What is a synonym for "optimistic?" A) Hopeful. B) Laughable. C) Interested. D) Negative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hopeful. 13. In "Ode to the West Wind, " the line "make me thy lyre" suggests what? A) The wind is fierce. B) He hopes the wind will help him write poetry. C) The wind is beautiful. D) The speaker wants to become a musical instrument. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He hopes the wind will help him write poetry. 14. Romantics value..... over logic. A) Intuition. B) Love. C) Faith. D) Science. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Intuition. 15. Is the speaker in "Snowbound" an adult or a child? A) There is no speaker. B) An adult. C) A child. D) We don't know. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A child. 16. Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson are both A) Romantics. B) Dark Romantics. C) Transcendentalists. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transcendentalists. 17. American Romanticism placed great faith in ..... A) Science. B) Inner experience. C) Nothing. D) God. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inner experience. 18. ..... is the use of wit, humor, mockery, or ridicule to expose flaws of society or industry and change them. A) Satire. B) Stereotype. C) Symbolism. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Satire. 19. The Transcendentalists believed in self-reliance and free thought. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 20. The concept that every element of a story should contribute to a single emotional effect of the story is called: A) Narrative Technique. B) Conceptualization. C) Single Effect. D) Emotionality. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Single Effect. 21. Which statement shows how the opinion held by American Romantic writers changed from the Age of Reason? A) Cities are centers of corruption and ugliness. B) European literature has no traditions worth considering. C) Westward expansion is exploitative and dangerous. D) Ordinary readers do not appreciate Romantic ideals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cities are centers of corruption and ugliness. 22. How many main major in E's pootry? A) 6. B) 7. C) 4. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 6. 23. What is the rare wine in the cellar called? A) Sherry. B) Pinot Noir. C) Chardonnay. D) Amontillado. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Amontillado. 24. Who came up with germ theory? A) Dmitri Mendeleev. B) Marie Curie. C) Louis Pasteur. D) Michael Faraday. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Louis Pasteur. 25. Characteristic Feature:The use of diagonals to show the peak of an emotion or moment (versus a regular moment). A) Romanticism. B) Realism. C) Neoclassicism. D) Rococo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Neoclassicism. 26. Kansas City calls itself the City of Fountains, its goal is to build a new public fountain every year. A) Comma splice. B) Correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comma splice. 27. (1880-1910) Named and popularized in England by the Architect Richard Norman Shaw. A) High Victorian. B) Eclectic Style. C) Early Victorian. D) Queen Anne Style. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Queen Anne Style. 28. True or False:All poems have a shift A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 29. Mainly, the Gothic writers explored A) The effects of guilt on the mind. B) The effects of sin on the mind. C) The effect of madness on the mind. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 30. Nearly everyone Edgar Allan Poe loved died from ..... A) Malaria. B) Tuberculosis. C) Small pox. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tuberculosis. 31. Using folk songs, dances, legends, and history in music is a way to express ..... A) Romanticism. B) Musical nationalism. C) A thematic transformation. D) Art songs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Musical nationalism. 32. What element of dark romanticism is found here? Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!-prophet still, if bird or devil!-Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, A) Obsession with death and evil. B) All nature is in a state of decay. C) God is remote, people sin-filled. D) Setting is gloomy, horror-fillled. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) God is remote, people sin-filled. 33. Romanticism is the essence of ..... A) Escapism. B) Nature. C) Love. D) Harmony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Escapism. 34. Musical ensembles of the Romantic period became A) Expanded. B) Reduced. C) Unusual. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Expanded. 35. What are the types of romantics called? A) Transcendentalists and dark goodness. B) Dark romantics and medieval English literature. C) Transcendentalists and Dark Romantics. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transcendentalists and Dark Romantics. 36. Synonyms (similar words) for sublime: A) Mysterious. B) Beautiful. C) Satirical. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beautiful. 37. Dark Romantic works are most likely to include which kind of element? A) Supernatural. B) Comedic relief. C) Romance. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Supernatural. 38. One of the most important modifications done to the piano was A) The addition of more scales (keys). B) The addition of another leg. C) The creation of a new type of strings. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The addition of more scales (keys). 39. How did romanticism grow? A) Romanticism continued to grow in reaction to american revolution and was not effected by french. B) Romanticism continued to grow in reaction to the effects of the social transformation caused by the Revolution. C) Both answers are correct. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Romanticism continued to grow in reaction to the effects of the social transformation caused by the Revolution. 40. Why does Thoreau dislike the railroad? A) People buy train tickets as a superficial sign for their wealth. B) The railroad is too fast and dangerous for his tastes. C) People put more effort and value into it than their own lives. D) They are destroying the natural scenery of th ecountryside. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) People put more effort and value into it than their own lives. 41. How many tones are there in a chromatic scale? A) 1/2. B) 60. C) 12. D) 1.2. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 12. 42. Characteristic Feature:Local color and overall lighting. A) Realism. B) Neoclassism. C) Rococo. D) Romanticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Neoclassism. 43. A relatively short piece of writing that attempts to grapple with an idea, explain something, or argue a point A) The Dark Romantics. B) Unitarianism. C) Free verse. D) Essay. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Essay. 44. The Romantics viewed nature as something that could be tamed and understood. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 45. An author deeply embedded in the romanticism era and wrote Frankenstein A) Percy Bysshe Shelley. B) William Wordsworth. C) Mary Shelley. D) John Keats. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mary Shelley. 46. How do Rip Van Winkle's friends react when they see how he is treated by Dame Van Winkle? A) They don't really care. B) They feel sorry for him. C) They make fun of him. D) They tell him he needs to get divorced. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They make fun of him. 47. As Tom Walker grew older he became frightened about his fate in the afterlife and became a notorious churchgoer. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 48. The protagonist (hero) of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is A) Katrina Van Tassel. B) Brom Bones. C) The Farmer. D) Ichabod Crane. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ichabod Crane. 49. All of the following are characteristic of American Romanticism EXCEPT: A) Places faith in inner experience. B) Focuses only on reason and logic. C) Encourages individual freedom. D) Contemplates nature's beauty as a path to development. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Focuses only on reason and logic. 50. Read the following passage from Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee": "It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee;-And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me." What "unique or single effect" is Poe attempting to express in this passage? (1 point) A) Hatred. B) Paranoia. C) Horrow. D) Sorrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sorrow. 51. T/F-The tone of the last line of "Ode to the West Wind" is hope. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 52. At the end of "The Masque of the Red Death, " everyone discovers that A) The masked figure is the prince in disguise. B) The doors that had been welded shut had mysteriously opened. C) They aren't safe from the Red Death after all. D) The masked figure is a famous ghost of the abbey. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They aren't safe from the Red Death after all. 53. Which of the following descriptions is accurate for Goethe, Chopin, Coleridge, and Constable? A) Painter. B) Writer. C) Realist. D) Romantic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Romantic. 54. Why is the title of "The First Snowfall" important to the speaker? A) It's not important to him. B) He loves the first snowfall of the season. C) It's the first snowfall since the death of his daughter. D) It's the first snowfall since the death of his wife. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It's the first snowfall since the death of his daughter. 55. In The Devil and Tom Walker, what is the main reason Tom agrees to the devils terms? A) To hurt his wife. B) To give thanks for his wife's disappearance. C) His greed and moral corruption. D) Because he wants to do good in the world. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His greed and moral corruption. 56. What concept emerged during the Romantic period? A) Feudalism. B) Nationalism. C) Absolutism. D) Enlightenment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nationalism. 57. The use of language to appeal to the senses: A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 58. What does Whitman shout about the roofs? A) A proclamation of love. B) A lamentation. C) A barbaric yawn. D) A barbaric yawp. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A barbaric yawp. 59. The following quote best shows what element of absence? "To think that there I was, opening the door, little by little, and he not even to dream of my secret deeds or thoughts. I fairly chuckled at the idea; and perhaps he heard me; for he moved on the bed suddenly, as if startled. Now you may think that Idrew back ..... but no. His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness, (for the shutters were close fastened, through fear of robbers, ) and so I knew that he could not see the opening of the door, and I kept pushing it on steadily, steadily." A) Unknown. B) Unexpected. C) Unbelievable. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unknown. 60. In "The World Is Too Much With Us, " the poet is sad because they are out of tune with what? A) Themselves. B) Money matters. C) Nature. D) Religious beliefs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nature. ← 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