This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Romantic > Romanticism – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Romanticism Quiz 6 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In "The Black Cat", the narrator's house: A) Is haunted. B) Is falling down. C) Burns to the ground. D) Is repossessed by the banks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Burns to the ground. 2. Name one kind of prose popular during the Victorian period? A) The novel. B) Biography. C) Folktale. D) Myth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The novel. 3. Characteristic Feature:Emotional extremes and heightened sensation. A) Rococo. B) Realism. C) Neoclassism. D) Romanticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Romanticism. 4. True or False:Realism is the precise, detailed, and accurate representation in art of the visual appearance of scenes and objects. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. During this period, there is an increased interest and awareness of the Middle ages. A) Romanticism. B) Revival. C) Neoclassism. D) Rococo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romanticism. 6. In the last picture "The Slave Ship" by J. M. W. Turner, the work shows ..... A) Hope. B) Happiness. C) Sadness. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sadness. 7. A question asked for effect but not meant to be answered because the answer is clear from the context. A) Iambic Pentameter. B) Rhetorical Question. C) Rhyme. D) Blank Verse. E) Elaboration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical Question. 8. Romantic poems are usually about expressing love. Which of the following Romantic poems isn't romantic in nature (not about loving someone else)? 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: A) I wandered lonely as a cloud. 9. The Declaration of Sentiments was written at A) The Constitutional Convention. B) The Centennial Exposition. C) The Seneca Falls Convention. D) The Convention for the Betterment for Women. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Seneca Falls Convention. 10. Romantic writers wanted to move AWAY from ..... A) The natural world. B) Political matters. C) Imagination. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Political matters. 11. What famous romantic composer started going deaf at 30 and was completely deaf by 50? A) Beethoven. B) Mozart. C) Bach. D) Handel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beethoven. 12. The physical facts of the natural world are a doorway to the spiritual or ideal world. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 13. Romanticism values reason over faith or intuition. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 14. Based on the information in the poem, what was Ozymandias's kingdom probably like at the time the sculpture was created? A) Powerful. B) Happy. C) Small. D) Bare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Powerful. 15. Programme music means that the music is supposed to be telling a story. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 16. Which of the following is a characteristic of Romantic Music? A) Instrumental music became more important than vocal. B) The orchestra grows in size. C) The piano gains popularity. D) Unlike Baroque music, it was simple, balanced, and non-emotional. E) All are characteristics of Romantic Music. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) All are characteristics of Romantic Music. 17. A story which represents a larger point about society or human nature whose different characters or places may be symbolic for real-life ideas: A) Imagery. B) Allusion. C) Allegory. D) Unreliable narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allegory. 18. Which elements of romanticism can be found here? "From the forests and the prairies, From the great lakes of the Northland, From the land of the Ojibways, From the land of the Dacotahs, A) Optimism about human nature. B) Equality of all people. C) Reverence for nature. D) Fascination with Native Americans as raised in nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fascination with Native Americans as raised in nature. 19. French romantic who wrote The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserable A) Viktor Vaughn. B) Victor Hugo. C) Victor Wolfe. D) Victor Strange. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Victor Hugo. 20. ..... is a term used to describe the struggle to earn the right to vote. A) Electoral College. B) Supper. C) Abolitionist Movement. D) Suffrage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Suffrage. 21. Causes that sparked the American Romantic Era A) Westward Expansion. B) Industrial Revolution. C) Growth of population in cities. D) All of these are causes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these are causes. 22. Romantic writers valued imagination and feeling over intellect and reason. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 23. Who wrote "Echo" ? A) John Keats. B) William Wordsworth. C) Christina Rossetti. D) Lord Byron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Christina Rossetti. 24. During what period of time did the Romanticism Music Period occur? A) 1730-1820 approximately. B) 1850-1900 approximately. C) 1800-1900 approximately. D) 1830-1900 approximately. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1800-1900 approximately. 25. Why were some authors called "Fireside Poets" ? A) Their works were often entertainment read around the camp fire. B) They told stories during camp outs. C) They worked all day and wrote stories during the night. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Their works were often entertainment read around the camp fire. 26. Transcendentalism is best defined as A) Believes that every individual can reach ultimate truths through spiritual intuition, which transcends reason and physical experience. B) Wanting to replace conventional realism with the full expression of the unconscious mind. C) Ridiculing shortcomings of people or institutions in an attempt to bring about a change. D) A revolt against rationalism that affected literature and the other arts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Believes that every individual can reach ultimate truths through spiritual intuition, which transcends reason and physical experience. 27. Who are the romantic poets? A) Spencer, Chaucer, Blake. B) Words worth, Keats, Shelly, Coleridge and William blake. C) Words worth, Keats, Edgar allan poe and Andrew. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Words worth, Keats, Shelly, Coleridge and William blake. 28. The Romantics believed that in nature A) We find darkness. B) We find evil. C) We find sin. D) We find truth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) We find truth. 29. Which of these was not deeply appreciated by Romantics? A) Introspection. B) The common man/noble savage. C) Untamed nature. D) Science. E) The child. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Science. 30. The Romantic writers believed the best source for wisdom and knowledge was: A) God. B) Nature. C) Wealth. D) War. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nature. 31. What is unique about the Realism style? A) Whimsical, elaborate, & pastel colors. B) Portrayed only what they could see & experience featuring the working class & common everyday world. C) Overly emotional & dramatic lighting. D) Classical influences Clean, Crisp, hard edged style. E) About great adventures & heroism emotional. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Portrayed only what they could see & experience featuring the working class & common everyday world. 32. In "The Pit and the Pendulum, " the narrator describes his experience in the dungeon through his senses. This is: A) Alliteration. B) Imagery. C) Simile. D) Foreshadowing . Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 33. A writing technique in which a subject is introduced and then expanded upon through repetition with minor changes, the addition of details, or similar methods. A) Iambic Pentameter. B) Elaboration. C) Rhyme. D) Blank Verse. E) Rhetorical Question. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elaboration. 34. Gothic Literature was the predecessor to what modern film genre? A) Horror. B) Sci-fi. C) Fable. D) Fantasy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Horror. 35. What LITERARY DEVICES are found here? And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 36. Nature is viewed as a path to what type of development? A) Spiritual. B) Evil. C) Professional. D) Physical. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spiritual. 37. Which of the following ideas is associated with Romanticism? A) Mass distribution of books. B) Impressions of the moment. C) Wild emotions and feelings. D) Political importance of the working class. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wild emotions and feelings. 38. How did the Romantics view man? A) Inherently evil. B) Useless against nature. C) Focus on fate. D) Focus on the individual and his inner world (imagination and emotions). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Focus on the individual and his inner world (imagination and emotions). 39. Which is not an element of "Brooding Romanticists?" A) Explored human capacity for evil. B) Were committed to social reform. C) Supernatural or fantasy. D) Explored character's motivations. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Were committed to social reform. 40. When thoughts/Of the last bitter hour A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. E) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 41. Who wrote To a Waterfowl? A) William Cullen Bryant. B) Walt Whitman. C) John Greenleaf Whittier. D) Emily Dickinson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Cullen Bryant. 42. Which of these operas is NOT included in Wagner's "Ring Cycle" ? A) The Valkyrie. B) Siegfried. C) Lohengrin. D) The Rhine Gold. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lohengrin. 43. Ages of Western Visual Art:Roman A) CA. 0-600. B) CA. 0-800. C) CA. 0-500. D) CA. 0-1000. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) CA. 0-500. 44. "The Devil and Tom Walker":In negotiating their deal, Tom rejects Old Scratch's suggestion that he A) Drive other people to Old Scratch. B) Become a slave trader. C) Use the pirate treasure in Old Scratch's service. D) Become a usurer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Become a slave trader. 45. Horace Mann was a notable promoter of public schools. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 46. Dance in style in every ballroom of the 19th century, with a ternary rhythm and fast movements in circles. A) Waltz. B) Minuet. C) Ballet. D) Dance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Waltz. 47. The idea of "art for art's sake" was born of the Romantic spirt. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 48. How did the Romantics view nature? A) Beautiful, mysterious, and symbolic. God can be seen therein. B) Inherently antagonistic to man. C) Focus on fate. D) Focus on the individual and his inner world (imagination and emotions). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beautiful, mysterious, and symbolic. God can be seen therein. 49. Romanticism in America coincided with the period of national ..... and the discovery of a distinctive American voice A) Immigration. B) Expansion. C) Depopulation. D) Growth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Expansion. 50. Who was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence? A) Thomas Jefferson. B) Thomas Paine. C) Phillip Freneau. D) Benjamin Franklin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thomas Jefferson. 51. How many years has passed since Montresor committed the crime? A) A thousand. B) A decade. C) Half a century. D) Half a millenia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Half a century. 52. An oil painting of 1818-1819 by the French painter Theodore Gericault. A) First of May. B) Liberty leading the people. C) The charging Chasseur. D) The Raft of Medusa. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Raft of Medusa. 53. Which of Thoreau's philosophical assumptions is found in this passage from Walden? "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer." A) Individualism. B) Lack of materialism. C) Emphasis on simplicity. D) Love of nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Individualism. 54. What characteristic is associated with Romanticism? A) Conformity and tradition. B) Technology and industrialization. C) Logic, rationality, and reason. D) Emotion, individualism, nature, and the supernatural. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Emotion, individualism, nature, and the supernatural. 55. Where is the story of Tom Walker set? A) A Midwestern frontier pine forest, circa 1608. B) A forest near Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1727. C) A pond deep in the Maine forest, circa 1850. D) The New Orleans, Louisiana, riverfront, circa1727. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A forest near Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1727. 56. Who wrote Hermani? A) Victor Hugo. B) Erick Maladono. C) King Louis XVI. D) Jehu Garcia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Victor Hugo. 57. When Emerson writes, "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, " he is most likely referring to ..... A) A person's individual ideas. B) When the moon hits your eye. C) A person's optimism. D) A person's rebellion from society. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A person's individual ideas. 58. "There were a few at the scene, but they all agreed That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me" This is an example of: A) End Rhyme. B) Rhyme Scheme. C) Internal Rhyme. D) Slant Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Slant Rhyme. 59. Through music, literature, and painting, the romantic artists attempted to A) Make people fall in love. B) Express their love for women. C) Stir the emotions. D) Get people to reject modern inventions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stir the emotions. 60. Which author served as an American diplomat in Spain? A) James Russell Lowell. B) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. C) Margaret Fuller. D) John Greenleaf Whittier. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) James Russell Lowell. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesRomanticism Quiz 1Romanticism Quiz 2Romanticism Quiz 3Romanticism Quiz 4Romanticism Quiz 5Romanticism Quiz 7Romanticism Quiz 8Romanticism Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books