This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Romantic > Romanticism – Quiz 31 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Romanticism Quiz 31 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Like other American Romantic heroes, Rip Van Winkle has a deep love for ..... A) Civilized living; civilization. B) Nature. C) Cities. D) Women. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nature. 2. Where did Beethoven generally play his Piano Sonata, Op 13 the Pathetique? A) In the parlors of middle class homes for his friends. B) He didn't play the compositin with any frequecy. C) In the homes and palaces of the Viennese aristocracy. D) In the parlors of families with young women whom he wanted to woo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In the homes and palaces of the Viennese aristocracy. 3. A brief story usually told to prove a point. It may be about the speaker or about someone the speaker knows/has heard of A) Anecdote. B) Alliteration. C) Inferenc. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anecdote. 4. An english painter, printmaker and poet, Born November 28, 1757, A) John Constable. B) Francisco Goya. C) Eugene Delacroix. D) William Blake. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Blake. 5. True or False:Twain was once the pilot of a steamboat. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 6. During the industrial revolution, factories hired A) Foreigners. B) Children. C) Men. D) Women. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Children. 7. All of the following were negative effects of the Industrial Revolution EXCEPT: A) Commercialism. B) Religious revival. C) Hectic pace. D) Lack of conscience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Religious revival. 8. True or False:Transcendentalists valued alone time with nature, away from the distractions of civilization and industrialization. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 9. Transcendentalism is a movement of the 1900s? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 10. What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza:Because I could not stop for Death-He kindly stopped for me-The Carriage held but just Ourselves-And Immortality. A) ABCB. B) AABB. C) ABBA. D) ABCA. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ABCB. 11. What makes Tom a hypocrite? A) His hidden love of money. B) His fake devoutness to the church. C) His friendship with the Devil. D) His hatred for his life. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His fake devoutness to the church. 12. Characteristics of a Rationalist Hero include ..... A) Worldly and well-read/ well-educatedSophisticatedBent on making a name for himself in the big citySets the laws, foundations of countryCharming to women. B) Youthful, innocent and pureIntuitive Close to NatureFollows his principles, not lawsAwkward with women. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Worldly and well-read/ well-educatedSophisticatedBent on making a name for himself in the big citySets the laws, foundations of countryCharming to women. 13. James Fennimore Cooper explored ..... A) The beauty of death. B) The subconscious struggle with good and evil. C) The evil of urban America. D) The frontier. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The frontier. 14. Which composer lived and composed during both the Classical Period and Romantic Period? A) Haydn. B) Mozart. C) Beethoven. D) Puccini. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beethoven. 15. Which author published an essay that was a revolutionary feminist work that paid tribute to women's intellectual and creative abilities and declared that women must be accepted as equal to men. A) James Russell Lowell. B) John Greenleaf Whittier. C) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. D) Margaret Fuller. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Margaret Fuller. 16. The Moldau was written by ..... A) Sour cream. B) Dvorak. C) Wagner. D) Verdi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sour cream. 17. Americans broke away from the typical European tradition of writing by writing about A) The civil war. B) The grim city of New York. C) The open frontier. D) The travels of people coming to this new land. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The open frontier. 18. Who was the author of "Civil Disobedience" and "Walden" ? A) Emerson. B) Dr. Seuss. C) Thoreau. D) Margaret Fuller. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thoreau. 19. What happens in The Raven when the speaker opens the door? A) He sees the neighbor running away. B) The bird flies in. C) He sees a maiden. D) He sees only darkness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He sees only darkness. 20. What is generally regarded as the end of the Romanticism movement? A) The publishing of William Wordsworth's and Samuel Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads. B) The start of World War 1. C) The crowning of Queen Victoria. D) The Camisard Rebellion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The crowning of Queen Victoria. 21. How can an artist use placement to create the illusion of space in a work of art? A) Objects that are placed higher on the paper seem close-up, objects that are lower will appear to be further away. B) Objects that are lower seem close-up, objects that are higher will appear to be further away. C) All objects are lined up on the horizon line of the image. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Objects that are lower seem close-up, objects that are higher will appear to be further away. 22. Who was Ralph Waldo Emerson? A) Leader of the Gothics. B) A previously unknown writer. C) Leader of the Fireside Poets. D) Leader of the Transcendentalists. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Leader of the Transcendentalists. 23. Romanticism is the name given to schools of thought that value ..... and ..... over reasoning. A) Logic and ideas. B) Feelings and intuition. C) Nature and nurture. D) Imagination and reason. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Feelings and intuition. 24. What LITERARY DEVICE is here? Perched upon a bust of Pallas* just above my chamber door-Perched, and sat, and nothing more. *(Athena, goddess of wisdom) A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Allusion. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 25. Ichabod Crane is a A) Writer. B) Farmer. C) Soldier. D) School teacher. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) School teacher. 26. Gothic Literature is also known as A) Dark Romanticism. B) Realism. C) Transcendentalism. D) Dark Realism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dark Romanticism. 27. An example of "program music"is ..... A) Erlking. B) Fantastic Symphony. C) Romeo and Juliet. D) Scheherazade. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Romeo and Juliet. 28. 4 things you will find in American Romantic writing ..... A) Idealism, instinct, nature, creativity. B) Idealism, transcendentalism, dark romanticism, romanticism. C) Pessimism, idealism, imagination, creativity. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idealism, instinct, nature, creativity. 29. Conspicuous and vulgar A) Indeterminate. B) Pathos. C) Ostentatious. D) Emblem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ostentatious. 30. Was the Louisiana Purchase made during Romantic time period? A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yes. 31. Transcendentalism was an offshoot of ..... A) Dark Gothic. B) Romanticism. C) Mentalism. D) Nature Study. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Romanticism. 32. One of the characteristics of realism was the search for national identity through art. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 33. In an argumentative writing, what is a claim? A) A statement that presents the main argument or point of view. B) A statement that supports the opposing viewpoint. C) A summary of the background information. D) A conclusion paragraph. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A statement that presents the main argument or point of view. 34. What kind of characteristic would the following poem be? "Be with me always-take any form-drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!" A) The critique of progress. B) The purity of childhood. C) Emotion and passion. D) The celebration of the individual. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Emotion and passion. 35. Who invented a new type of literary work called the detective short story? A) Poe. B) Emerson. C) Thoreau. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poe. 36. Romantics value intuition over reason. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 37. What poem describes the speaker's lover as beautiful and innocent? 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: D) She walks in beauty. 38. Which of the following vocabulary words has a positive connotation? A) Anathema. B) Wanton. C) Exemplary. D) Dissolute. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exemplary. 39. In the last stanza of "Tintern Abbey, " who is the poet speaking to? A) Himself. B) Nature. C) His sister. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His sister. 40. Romanticism began in the late 18th century and ended when? A) Mid-1900's. B) Mid-20th century. C) Mid-1800's. D) Very early 19th century. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mid-1800's. 41. During the period what was valued over logic/reason? A) Science. B) Education. C) Intuition. D) Religion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Intuition. 42. What is one belief of Transcendentalism? A) Belief in the inherent evilness of people and nature. B) Belief in the superiority of technology over nature. C) Belief in the inherent goodness of people and nature. D) Belief in the insignificance of human existence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Belief in the inherent goodness of people and nature. 43. The original dystopian, dark side of humanity stories that are so popular today originated with the dark romantics. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 44. Comparing two unlike things that actually have something in common A) Metaphor. B) Paradox. C) Synecdoche. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 45. The Devil carried Tom Walker off into a (a) where he was presumably struck by a thunderbolt and disappeared forever. A) Discourse. B) Dirge. C) Melancholy. D) A tempest. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A tempest. 46. Which of the following revolutions did NOT influence the Romantic movement? A) The Industrial Revolution. B) The British Revolution. C) The French Revolution. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The British Revolution. 47. Which of the following is NOT considered an author from the Romanticism Movement? A) Emily Dickinson. B) Walt Whitman. C) Edgar Allan Poe. D) Ray Bradbury. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ray Bradbury. 48. Which Romantic artist was known for his dramatic and turbulent seascapes? A) William Turner. B) John Constable. C) Theodore Gericault. D) Eugene Delacroix. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Turner. 49. What famous romantic horror novel did Mary Shelley write? A) Frankenstein. B) Hunchback of Notre Dame. C) Hansel and Gretel. D) Dracula. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Frankenstein. 50. What is the significance of the mingling of races 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: D) Immigrants in large numbers arrive in US. 51. "TMBV":How does Mr. Hooper's veil affect the wedding? A) The bride's fingers shake because she is scared and disturbed by the veil. B) The bride blushes in embarrassment. C) The wedding is a happy event despite it. D) The wedding is considered highly formal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The bride's fingers shake because she is scared and disturbed by the veil. 52. Emily Dickinson was the author of the poem ..... A) Dr. Heidegger's Experiment. B) "I'm Somebody". C) "Walden". D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "I'm Somebody". 53. Designed to impress or attract notice; obnoxious or vulgar. A) Convention. B) Ostentatious. C) Ostracize. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ostentatious. 54. William Lloyd Garrison published a militant anti-slavery newspaper called the Liberator. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 55. What is the Transcendental Club? A) A group of New England intellectuals. B) A club for amateur astronomers. C) A club for extreme sports enthusiasts. D) A club for transcendental meditation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A group of New England intellectuals. 56. The working class made up what percentage of European society? A) 80%. B) 60%. C) 70%. D) 90%. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 80%. 57. Which characteristics of Romanticism are present in "To a Waterfowl" ? A) Focus on the individual. B) Supernatural elements. C) Talking animals. D) Romantic love. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Focus on the individual. 58. Assuming without evidence A) Obstinate. B) Morass. C) Surmise. D) Userer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Surmise. 59. Which of the following is a statement an American Romantic author would likely agree with? A) Reason is more important than feelings. B) Individual freedom is a necessary thing. C) Civilization is the most important thing man can accomplish. D) There is no such thing as the supernatural. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Individual freedom is a necessary thing. 60. A word Thoreau repeats throughout "Walden" is A) "think, think, think". B) "nature, nature, nature". C) "simplicity, simplicity, simplicity". 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