This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Periods > Romantic > Romantic Period – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Romantic Period Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Out of more than 140 crew and passengers aboard that set sail on rafts, how many survivors left? A) 14. B) 12. C) 15. D) 13. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 15. 2. It refers to the layer of sound, how sparse or dense the music. A) Harmony. B) Texture. C) Melody. D) Tonality. E) Timbre. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Texture. 3. How many years after his death was Schubert's Unfinished Symphony first performed? A) 400 years. B) 40 years. C) 4 years. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 40 years. 4. Which two composers were part of the Romantic era? A) Bach and Vivaldi. B) Beethoven and Mozart. C) Bach and Beethoven. D) Tchaikovsky and Wagner. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tchaikovsky and Wagner. 5. Romanticism continues to influence the 20th century Expressionism and Surrealism. This is shown in Romanticism's basic principles of originality, self-expression and artistic freedom. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 6. He is known for being the 'Poet of the Piano'. Who is this Romantic Period composer? A) Chopin. B) Vivaldi. C) Diego. D) Schuman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chopin. 7. Which of these composers is from the Romantic Period? A) Haydn. B) Mozart. C) Bach. D) Schubert. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Schubert. 8. Which statement best describes the beliefs of the Romantic period? A) To be a romantic is to love your family. B) To be a romantic is to take the side of nature. C) To be a romantic is to believe in God. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To be a romantic is to take the side of nature. 9. A musical idea that serves as a starting point for development of a composition or section of a composition. A) Coda. B) Tempo. C) Theme. D) Motive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 10. The ..... was a meeting place for socialites and buisnesspeople A) Concert hall. B) Opera house. C) Theater. D) Arena. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Opera house. 11. Which was a prevalent type of Romantic literature A) Novels. B) Essays. C) Short Stories. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 12. A solo singing part sung by the principal character. A) LIBRETTO. B) ARIA. C) RECITATIVE. D) SCORE. E) LIBRETTIST. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) ARIA. 13. The solo singing part that public remember the best when leaving the Opera house. A) Aria. B) Libretto. C) Rectitatvie. D) Score. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aria. 14. Who among the following studied under Jaques-Louis David, whose works frequently featured naked people, portraits, and mythological themes? A) Jean Ingres. B) Robert Adam. C) Antonio Canova. D) Jacques David. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Jean Ingres. 15. When did the Romantic Period end? A) 1750. B) 1910. C) 1800. D) 1820. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1910. 16. When people started writing music using songs from their own country this started what? A) Folk songs. B) Symphonies. C) Waltz. D) Nationalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nationalism. 17. Composers expressed musical nationalism in their music by A) Using the rhythms of the dances of their homelands. B) Using their national legends as subject matter. C) Basing their music on the folk songs of their country. D) All of the answers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the answers. 18. Identify the terms, artworks and artists if it's Neoclassical period or Romantic period. The Apotheosis of Homer A) ROMANTIC PERIOD. B) NEOCLASSICAL PERIOD. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) NEOCLASSICAL PERIOD. 19. It is the most important medium of the Romantic Period. A) Piano. B) String Instrument. C) Woodwind Instrument. D) Percussion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Piano. 20. Unlike the formal clasical period, romantic music was more A) Emotional. B) Boring. C) Sleepy. D) Small. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emotional. 21. What is the lowest male voice? A) Baritone. B) Bass. C) Tenor. D) Alto. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bass. 22. TRUE OR FALSE:Music, in the earlier periods, is a craft that was passed from one generation to another. A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TRUE. 23. Who were the first generation romantics? A) NBA Youngboy. B) Samuel.L. Jackson. C) Martin Luther king jr. D) William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge. 24. Who that his music should be "music drama" ? A) Brahms. B) Wagner. C) Mozart. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wagner. 25. It is one of the famous sculpture work of Guillermo Tolentino. A) Pantheon. B) Spolarium. C) Nine Fairies. D) Oblation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oblation. 26. Frederic Chopin wrote most of his music for the this instrument. A) Flute. B) Piano. C) Violin. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Piano. 27. Which among the following is not a characteristic of Romantic arts? A) Height of action. B) Peace, joy and kindness. C) Dramatic compositions. D) Heightened sensation (life and death moments). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peace, joy and kindness. 28. Which of these sets of composers were part of the Romantic Era? A) Tall, Dark, Hummel. B) Beethoven, Wagner, Tchaikovsky. C) Copeland, Williams, and Ma. D) Bach, Telemann, Vivaldi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beethoven, Wagner, Tchaikovsky. 29. What is called one or more singers performing without instrumental accompaniment? A) A Capella. B) Coda. C) Capo. D) Can be sung. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A Capella. 30. What is the name given to the German songs set to music that Schumann and Schubert became well-known for? A) Aria. B) Waltz. C) Lieder. D) Polish. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lieder. 31. Romanticism oftentimes illustrated tragic contemporary events which make it more about ..... A) Happiness. B) Emptiness. C) Lightness. D) Darkness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Darkness. 32. During the Romantic period children were used as beasts of burden this led writers to want ..... and ..... change A) Financial;political. B) Social;political. C) Financial;personal. D) Social;personal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Social;political. 33. The paintings of the Romantic period gave more emphasis on emotion. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 34. What does ascending mean? A) The tune get louder. B) The tune gets quieter. C) A melody goes down. D) A melody goes upwards. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A melody goes upwards. 35. Which composer is known as one of the best composers for piano of all time? A) Chopin. B) Liszt. C) Mendelssohn. D) Brahms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chopin. 36. . He was the first internationally acclaimed Danish painter. A) ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE. B) ANTONIO CANOVA. C) BERTEL THORVALDSEN. D) FRANCIS RUDE. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) BERTEL THORVALDSEN. 37. What does programme music do? A) Accompanies ballet. B) Is for video games. C) Tells a story. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Is for video games. 38. Which word describes music for the church? A) Choral. B) Sacred. C) Secular. D) Baroque. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sacred. 39. The Romanticism mainly valued the individual, the subjective, a person's emotional experience, the wildness of nature. A) True. B) False. C) No information. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 40. Russian Composer who did not start studying music until the age of 21. Wrote symphonies, concertos, overtures, opera, and was most famous for his ballets. He is especially know for the Nutcracker ballet. A) Liszt. B) Tchaikovsky. C) Brahms. D) Wagner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tchaikovsky. 41. Which genre/subgenre was the most dominant in American Romantic Literature? A) Essay. B) Poetry. C) Novel. D) Drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Novel. 42. Type of instrumental music that was composed based on an external source such as a poem or image. A) Program music. B) Sonata. C) Motete. D) Character piece. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Program music. 43. Which composer's music was outlawed by the Nazis during WWII? A) Chopin. B) Grieg. C) Beethoven. D) Mozart. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chopin. 44. During the Romantic period, the people are followers of the social and political standards of classical era. A) True. B) Not really. C) False. D) They are irrelevant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) False. 45. Which composer created "The Nutcracker? A) Wagner. B) Tchaikovsky. C) Mendelssohn. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tchaikovsky. 46. The language of ....., not the artificial "poetic diction" of the previous age, becomes thechoice of the time. A) "artificial" man. B) "natural" man. C) Women. D) Common men. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Common men. 47. ..... described as a cultural movement that stressed emotion, imagination, individualism and freedom of expression A) Classical Period. B) Romantic Period. C) Renaissance Period. D) Baroque Period. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Romantic Period. 48. Considered the last of the classical composers and one of the first romantic ones. A) Schubert. B) Puccini. C) Verdi. D) Wagner. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Schubert. 49. Where do Romantic composers came from? A) Rural folk. B) Noblemen. C) Royalty. D) Social class. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Social class. 50. Which Classical composer really pushed the boundaries of Classical form and helped usher in the Romantic Era? A) Chopin. B) Beethoven. C) Haydn. D) Mozart. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beethoven. 51. TRUE OF FALSE:For the Romantics, REASON, rather than IMAGINATION, was the most important creative faculty. A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) FALSE. 52. Known as the "Poet of the Piano" . A) FREDERIC CHOPIN. B) ROBERT SCHUMANN. C) NICCOLO PAGANINI. D) FRANZ LISZT. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) FREDERIC CHOPIN. 53. A "nocturne" is a short piece played by ..... A) On the floor. B) A piano and a singer. C) A violin. D) A violin and a singer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) On the floor. 54. What drama is set to music in which the performers do acting and dancing? A) Opera. B) Aria. C) Concerto. D) Recitative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Opera. 55. It has all musical notes, words, and ideas to help performers to tell the story. A) Aria. B) Libretto. C) Score. D) Recitative. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Score. 56. Which of these instruments appeared in the Romantic era? A) Bass drum. B) Saxophone. C) Flute. D) Piano. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Saxophone. 57. What is one word used to describe music of the Baroque Period? A) Fancy . B) Minimalistic. C) Simple. D) Passionate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fancy . 58. Does the virtuoso performers obtain high respect from the society? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 59. King of Pianists A) Franz Liszt. B) Charles-Camille Saint-Saens. C) Frederic Francois Chopin. D) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Franz Liszt. 60. Who composed the Elfking-a German Lied? A) Franz Kafka. B) Franz Schubert. C) Franz Xavier Wolfgang Mozart. D) Franz Liszt. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Franz Schubert. Next →Related QuizzesPeriods QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesRomantic Period Quiz 2Romantic Period Quiz 3Romantic Period Quiz 4Romantic Period Quiz 5Romantic Period Quiz 6Romantic Period Quiz 7Romantic Period Quiz 8Romantic Period Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books