This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Romantic > Romanticism – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Romanticism Quiz 9 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In the Romantic period of music ..... A) Nationalism was important in music; folk songs were used. B) Music had to appeal only to wealthy people. C) Music had to have universal appeal. D) Music had no emotion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nationalism was important in music; folk songs were used. 2. The use of humor, irony, or ridicule to expose or criticize people's stupidity or vices (flaws). A) Satire. B) Impetuous. C) Deviancy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Satire. 3. Who was a Transcendentalist? A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. B) Henry David Thoreau. C) Both Thoreau and Emerson. D) Neither Thoreau and Emerson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both Thoreau and Emerson. 4. The heart beat in "The Tell-Tale Heart" best shows which element of presence? A) Rhythm. B) Pressure. C) Release. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 5. What was the Trail of Tears? A) The path taken by the US military to Georgia. B) The forced removal of Native tribes west of the Mississippi to modern day South Carolina. C) The forced removal of Native Tribes east of the Mississippi to modern day Oklahoma. D) A river in Oklahoma. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The forced removal of Native Tribes east of the Mississippi to modern day Oklahoma. 6. "The Cross of Snow" relates Longfellow's greif to an element of nature. When stating that the cross is "sun-defying, " what comparison is being made to Longfellow's grief? A) His grief is a religious one. B) His grief is permanent. C) His grief is slowly disappearing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His grief is permanent. 7. What kinds of characters did Realists want to deal with? A) Misunderstood characters. B) Ordinary characters from actual life. C) Superheroes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ordinary characters from actual life. 8. Believed there is a connection between the universe and the individual soul A) Transcendentalism. B) Romanticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transcendentalism. 9. Type of art that attempted to give the artists impression of a subject or moment in time A) Romanticism. B) Impressionism. C) Nationalism. D) Pointillism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Impressionism. 10. Previous; coming before A) Prevalent. B) Precaution. C) Prior. D) Prone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prior. 11. How much of European society did the wealthy elite make up? A) 15%. B) 10%. C) 5%. D) 12%. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 5%. 12. I remember the gradual patience/That fell from that cloud like snow A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. E) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 13. A brief work of fiction usually consisting of less than 30, 000 words. A) Conflict. B) Short Story. C) Plot. D) Gothic Fiction. E) Exposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Short Story. 14. What does the statue of Athena represent in the "Raven?" A) Integrity. B) Instigation. C) Grace. D) Rational Thought. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rational Thought. 15. Which of the following words means "to be covered or enveloped?" A) Emaciated. B) Enshrouded. C) Pallid. D) Sullen. E) Tremulous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Enshrouded. 16. What contributed to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution? A) A strong belief in the value of science and rational thinking. B) A strong belief in religion, especially Christianity. C) A strong affection for nature. D) A strong belief in superstition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A strong belief in the value of science and rational thinking. 17. What is a theme of this poem? The Sick RoseO Rose thou art sick.The invisible worm, That flies in the nightIn the howling storm:Has found out thy bedOf crimson joy:And his dark secret loveDoes thy life destroy. A) Death. B) Life. C) Roses. D) Worms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Death. 18. To exclude from society or group. A) Ostracize. B) Deviant. C) Ostentatious. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ostracize. 19. What does the picture "Watson and the shark" by John Singleton Copley represent? A) The supremacy of mankind over the nature. B) A battle between a man and a shark. C) A man having fun with a sea animal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A battle between a man and a shark. 20. What architectural style was famous during the Mid-18th Century? A) Rococo. B) Revival. C) Romanticism. D) Neoclassism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Romanticism. 21. What is unique about the Neoclassicism style? A) Portrayed only what they could see & experience featuring the working class & common everyday world. B) Overly emotional & dramatic lighting. C) Classical influences Clean, Crisp, hard edged style. D) About great adventures & heroism emotional. E) Whimsical, elaborate, & pastel colors. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Classical influences Clean, Crisp, hard edged style. 22. What do woman symbolize to the Romantic Hero? A) Loneliness. B) Evil. C) Domestication. D) Hope. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Domestication. 23. The Compromise of 1820 allowed this state to enter the Union as a slave state A) Missouri. B) Maine. C) Texas. D) California. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Missouri. 24. Which poet was known for using elliptical phrasing? A) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. B) Walt Whitman. C) Emily Dickinson. D) William Cullen Bryant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Emily Dickinson. 25. What kinds of characters did the Romantic writers create? A) Misunderstood, rejected by society. B) Superheroes. C) Everyday people. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Misunderstood, rejected by society. 26. Which American painter is known for his iconic image 'The Sleep of Reason Brings out Monsters', capturing the romantic interest in the limits of reason and the power of the irrational? A) Francisco Goya. B) Thomas Cole. C) Charles Baudelaire. D) Paul Gauguin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thomas Cole. 27. What does Iambic mean? A) The quieter sound is stressed first. B) The louder sound is stressed first. C) Repetition of a vowel sound. D) None of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The quieter sound is stressed first. 28. Two lines of verse (poetry) that rhyme. A) Couplet. B) Description. C) Meter. D) Satire. E) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 29. People can use their intuition to behold God's spirit revealed in nature or in their own souls. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 30. Which of the following Romantic ballet dancers is credited for developing and dancing in stiff toed shoes called pointe shoes which allowed the dancer to dance on her toes? A) Marie Camargo. B) Fanny Ellsler. C) Marie Taglioni. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Marie Taglioni. 31. Tchaikovsky wrote many..... A) Operas. B) Ballets. C) Symphonies. D) Concerts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ballets. 32. Why does Tom begin reading the Bible and praying to God? A) He finds people who care about him. B) He wants to escape the Devil. C) He feels bad about what he has done. D) He thinks God can give him more money that the Devil can. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He wants to escape the Devil. 33. American Romantic drama grew and the first playhouse was built in ..... in 1716 A) New Orleans. B) Albany. C) Chicago. D) Williamsburg. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Williamsburg. 34. True or false. Romanticism is the revival of Renaissance ideals. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 35. True or False-operas and symphonies were looked down upon during this time period A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 36. In the Disney movie Moana, the female protagonist comes across several ..... water spirits as she travels to restore the heart of Te Fiti. A) Frivolous. B) Ambivalent. C) Whimsical. D) Aesthetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Whimsical. 37. How did people's lives change because of the Industrial Revolution? A) People bought more handmade goods than before. B) People worked mostly on farms. C) People bought factory made items and worked outside the home. D) People made a lot of money making homemade items. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) People bought factory made items and worked outside the home. 38. Which of the following titles was NOT written by Edgar Allan Poe? A) The Tell-Tale Heart. B) The Black Cat. C) Dr. Heidegger's Experiment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dr. Heidegger's Experiment. 39. Romantics wanted to avoid what Edgar Allan Poe called ..... A) Beauty and truth. B) Logical reasoning. C) Boring writing. D) Dull realities. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dull realities. 40. Which was an author of Romanticism? A) Anne Bradstreet. B) Phillis Wheatley. C) John Milton. D) William Woodsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Woodsworth. 41. Dark Romantics used this literary device as a constant technique in their writing. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Symbolism. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbolism. 42. Manufacturers sold their goods abroad instead of just locally A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 43. For Wordsworth a poet is a person whose greater imaginative power makes him an ideal spiritual guide for mankind. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 44. Who wrote Thanatopsis? A) William Cullen Bryant. B) Emily Dickinson. C) James Russell Lowell. D) Walt Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Cullen Bryant. 45. True or false. Romanticism is the first style in which the expression of the artist's feelings became important. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 46. Evaluation of the impact of Romanticism on society:Discuss the role of Romanticism in shaping the concept of national identity and cultural heritage. A) Romanticism had no impact on society. B) Romanticism emphasized individualism, emotion, and the celebration of nature and the past, shaping the concept of national identity and cultural heritage. C) Romanticism led to the decline of national identity and cultural heritage. D) Romanticism focused on logic and reason instead of emotion and nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Romanticism emphasized individualism, emotion, and the celebration of nature and the past, shaping the concept of national identity and cultural heritage. 47. Which of the following groups contains 3 of the 5 I's of Romanticism? A) Individualism, inner experience, inspiration from society. B) Innocence, intelligence, imagination. C) Inner experience, imagination, indifference. D) Inspiration from nature, intuition, individualism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inspiration from nature, intuition, individualism. 48. Henry David Thoreau saved money by living in the woods and grew to be a very rich man. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 49. American Romantic heroes were usually A) Old. B) Educated. C) Humorous. D) Young. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Young. 50. Which of the following was a gothic author? A) John Greenleaf Whittier. B) Henry David Thoreau. C) Edgar Allen Poe. D) Herman Melville. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Edgar Allen Poe. 51. Which is not a characteristic of the Romantic era? A) Orientalism. B) Life among nature. C) Materialism. D) Individualism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Materialism. 52. In "Civil Disobedience, " Thoreau is reflecting on his time ..... A) In nature. B) In school. C) In jail. D) In the west. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In jail. 53. The process by which a writer reveals the personality of a character is called: A) Irony. B) Character design. C) Personalization. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Characterization. 54. Which of the following is NOT a trait of Romanticism? A) Rational thought could be reached through nature. B) Imagination. C) Values feeling over reason. D) Exotic settings. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rational thought could be reached through nature. 55. What was the end result of Beethoven's early period? A) Beethoven finding his way in Vienesse culture. B) Beethoven moving back to Bonn. C) Beethoven meeting Mozart. D) Beethoven going deaf. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beethoven finding his way in Vienesse culture. 56. Where did American Romantics believe that you could find God? A) Inside yourself. B) At the flagpole (at 2:36). C) Church. D) Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nature. 57. What LITERARY DEVICE is here? "He was my Romeo and I was his Juliet." A) Aphorism. B) Paradox. C) Allusion. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 58. Romantics did not value nature A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 59. Who ties the Albatross around the Mariner's neck? A) The captain. B) His shipmates. C) A mystical spirit. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His shipmates. 60. What was the main idea of Thoreau's Walden? A) " extravagance is not the key in life.". B) " people don't need a ton of material things.". C) " to find the meaning of life.". D) " keep it simple and not too complicated.". 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