This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Romantic > Romanticism – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Romanticism Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. All of these occurred during and directly affected Romanticism except A) The English Civil War. B) The American Revolution. C) The Industrial Revolution. D) The French Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The English Civil War. 2. In Oliver Twist, why does Dickens say that "The bowls never wanted washing; the boys polished them with their spoons until they shone again" ? A) They would throw the bowls out at the end of the meal. B) Their spoons had special scrubbers on them, so they did not have to wash them. C) The boys had to go on dish duty at the end of the meal. D) The kids were so hungry they ate every bit in the bowl. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The kids were so hungry they ate every bit in the bowl. 3. Who is the speaker of 'The Lamb'? A) William Blake. B) The lamb. C) A child. D) Jesus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A child. 4. Which word best describes both Dickinson's and Whitman's attitudes towards death as conveyed through their poetry? A) Accepting. B) They hesitate. C) Fearful. D) Joyous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Accepting. 5. Who is considered the father of Transcendentalism? A) Henry David Thoreau. B) Edgar Allen Poe. C) Herman Melville. D) Ralph Waldo Emerson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 6. Important writer of the romanticism movement A) Edgar Allan Poe. B) Charles Dickens. C) Stedhal. D) J. R. R. Tolkien. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Edgar Allan Poe. 7. Select which is NOT a characteristic of American Romanticism. A) [individual] freedom. B) The past. C) Culture. D) Knowledge. E) Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Knowledge. 8. True or FalseIn "Bright Star", it is believed that John Keats wrote his poem about love A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 9. True or False?The cabin built by Henry David Thoreau was located next to a freshwater pond high in the mountains of Colorado. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 10. A picture in words which includes sensory details ..... words and phrases that describe how things look, sound, taste, smell, or feel A) Couplet. B) Description. C) Meter. D) Satire. E) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Description. 11. Who wrote "Song of Myself?" A) Walt Whitman. B) Phillis Wheatly. C) Edgar Allen Poe. D) Henry Thoreau. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Walt Whitman. 12. Who was the architect for Westminster Palace? A) Augustus Pugin. B) Charles Barry. C) Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin. D) None of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin. 13. Muddy or boggy ground A) Obstinate. B) Swarthy. C) Morass. D) Avarice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Morass. 14. What poem proclaims that a speaker wishes to be ever so loyal and committed to his lover as he is laying down on her bosom and observing her breathe? A) I wandered lonely as a cloud. B) Echo. C) Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art. D) She walks in beauty. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art. 15. "The Devil and Tom Walker":The relationship between Tom and his wife is most similar to the typical relationship between A) Newlyweds. B) A dog and a cat. C) Business partners. D) An employer and and employee. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A dog and a cat. 16. Which of the following authors was not part of the American Romanticism movement? A) Walt Whitman. B) Edgar Allan Poe. C) Nathaniel Hawthorne. D) William Wordsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Wordsworth. 17. To a romantic, power belongs to ..... A) Nature. B) Man. C) Reason. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nature. 18. Who do we know were good friends during their lifetimes? A) Emerson and Thoreau. B) Poe and Thoreau. C) Poe and Emerson. D) Thoreau and Fuller. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emerson and Thoreau. 19. When an author shows the reader things that reveal the personality of the character, it is called: A) Explicit Characterization. B) Direct Characterization. C) Indirect Characterization. D) Implicit Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Indirect Characterization. 20. The ..... of formal writing require proper punctuation and grammar. A) Convey. B) Satire. C) Convention. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Convention. 21. The German lied is A) A piece of music for piano and solo voice. B) A piece of music for chamber groups. C) A piece of music for orchestra. D) A piece of music for choir. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A piece of music for piano and solo voice. 22. Emily Dickinson attended ..... A) Ms. Dinah's School for Young Women. B) Buckley's School for the Arts. C) Amhearst Academy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Amhearst Academy. 23. Who was not in the Russian Five? A) Mussorgsky. B) Glinka. C) Borodin. D) Which. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Glinka. 24. What was the policy that helped England to earn tremendous wealth called? A) Let it happen. B) Free Market. C) Freedom of Trade. D) Equal Pay. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Let it happen. 25. Best examples of Rationalism A) Ghost. B) Hotels. C) Roads. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ghost. 26. What event in Dr. Heidegger's past has made him interested in becoming young for a second time? A) His fiance died on the night before their wedding. B) His mother died when he was very young and he does not remember her very well. C) He lost his chance to become a lawyer when he became too ill to practice law. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His fiance died on the night before their wedding. 27. What does the Revolutionary Period emphasize? A) Logic/reason. B) Imagination. C) Religion. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Logic/reason. 28. What type of literature was most prominent during the Romantic period? A) Poetry. B) Pamphlets. C) Plays. D) Novels. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry. 29. Many people are feeling a lot of ..... towards the upcoming election because of all the misleading and controversial information found in the media. A) Happiness. B) Frivolous. C) Excitement. D) Ambivalence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ambivalence. 30. The phrase 'Her laughter was a melody that filled the room.' is an example of what? A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 31. What did the man who lived forever possess? A) Befell. B) Immortality. C) Acuteness. D) Blight. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Immortality. 32. "Skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony." A) Grimm Brothers. B) The Sarlet Letter. C) The Great Gatsby. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Grimm Brothers. 33. The repeated consonant sounds at the beginnings of words (breeze blew briskly) A) Alliteration. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 34. What literary movement that stressed ordinary characters and precise descriptions? A) Secularization. B) Organic evolution. C) Romanticism. D) Realism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Realism. 35. Who is consider the "leader" of American Transcendentalism? A) Poe. B) Emerson. C) Whitman. D) Cooper. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emerson. 36. Who was not a Fireside Poet? A) John Greenleaf Whittier. B) James Russell Lowell. C) Henry David Thoreau. D) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Henry David Thoreau. 37. Decide whether the statement about Romanticism as a literary movement is correct or not.Human over nature as a theme is evidently present on romantic poems. A) YES. B) NO. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) NO. 38. Man basically good but corrupted by society A) Romanticism. B) Transcendentalism. C) Dark Romanticism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romanticism. 39. Who does the speaker talk directly to in "Beauteous Evening" ? A) A rainbow. B) Water. C) His son. D) A child. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A child. 40. A work in which the characters, events, or settings symbolize, or represent something else. A) Couplet. B) Description. C) Meter. D) Satire. E) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Allegory. 41. Romantics and Dark Romantics both believe nature is a deeply spiritual force. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 42. Tom Walker was completely (a) when he met the devil. A) Sullen. B) A undaunted. C) Emaciated. D) Tremulous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A undaunted. 43. How can an artist use value to create the illusion of space in a work of art? A) Objects that are closer are darker in value and objects that are further away will be lighter in value. B) Objects that are further away are darker in value and objects that are closer will be lighter in value. C) All objects will have a similar value. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Objects that are closer are darker in value and objects that are further away will be lighter in value. 44. What is true in both of the Wordsworth poems? A) Nature offers wisdom. B) The speaker suffers from loneliness. C) The speaker worries about humanity. D) Humans value society over the individual. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nature offers wisdom. 45. Which of the following is a Transcendentalist author? A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. B) Benjamin Franklin. C) William Cullen Bryant. D) Arthur Miller. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 46. Why doesn't Tom accept the Devil's first offer? A) He needs to talk it over with his wife. B) He thinks he can get a better deal. C) He needs time to think. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He needs time to think. 47. What is considered as Greek and Renaissance Revival? A) High Victorian. B) Early Victorian. C) Queen Anne Style. D) Eclectic Style. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) High Victorian. 48. ..... was a Romantic composer whose musical life was unique in that he was very isolated and hardly ever heard music of other composers, thus forcing him "to become original" . He is referred to as the Father of the Modern Symphony. A) Franz Schubert. B) Ludwig van Beethoven. C) Franz Joseph Haydn. D) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. E) Cristoph Gluck. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Franz Joseph Haydn. 49. "TMBV":What can you infer about Hawthorne's message from the following passage? The next day, the whole village of Milford talked of little else than Parson Hooper's black veil. That, and the mystery concealed behind it, supplied a topic of discussion between acquaintances meeting in the street, and good women gossiping at their open windows. It was the first item of news that the tavern keeper told his guests. The children babbled of it on their way to school. A) Hawthorne thinks children are the worst gossipers. B) Hawthorne thinks it's important for people to talk about what is happening in their community. C) Hawthorne thinks that most human beings are respectful of people's differences. D) Hawthorne thinks most human beings gossip too much. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hawthorne thinks most human beings gossip too much. 50. What does Transcendentalism emphasize in determining the ultimate reality? A) Intuition and gut feeling. B) Logic and reason. C) Social norms and conventions. D) Scientific evidence and experimentation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Intuition and gut feeling. 51. Chris slowly walked up to Emma with his hands behind his back. "So ..... you want to go out with me, " he said nervously. Emma blushed. "Ok." Chris smiled. This is an example of: A) 3rd Person Narrative. B) 3rd Person Omniscient. C) 3rd Person Limited. D) 3rd Person Objective. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3rd Person Objective. 52. Nature to Wordsworth was the expression of the ideal in the real, the mirror of the divine absolute, the ultimate reality. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 53. It is the age of enlightenment, rationalization of nature. A) Romanticism. B) Rococo. C) Neoclassism. D) Revival. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romanticism. 54. Most of Poe's stories and poems deal with loss and sorrow, ruin and revenge, disease and death A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 55. Famous English realist novelist who wrote about London s working poor "Great Expectations" A) Charles Dickens. B) Charles Bronson. C) Charles Olivier. D) Charles Taylor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Charles Dickens. 56. T/F-In "My Heart Leaps Up, " the speaker never wants to lose his happiness in the real world. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 57. Dean became ..... after his girlfriend dumped him for his best friend on Valentine's Day. A) Cryptic. B) Cunning. C) Cynical. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cynical. 58. Characteristic Feature:Portrayal of Roman history and formal composition. A) Romanticism. B) Rococo. C) Neoclassism. D) Realism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Neoclassism. 59. What work does the following line showcase? "Build thee more stately mansions O my soul ..... " A) "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls". B) "The Devil and Tom Walker". C) "The Fall of the House of Usher". D) "The Chambered Nautilus". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "The Chambered Nautilus". 60. The difference between what is expected to happen and what actually occurs is called: A) Residual Irony. B) Verbal Irony. C) Dramatic Irony. D) Situational Irony. 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