This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Periods > Romantic > Romantic Period – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Romantic Period Quiz 12 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A large section of a play or an opera. A) Scene. B) Sat. C) Act. D) Ged. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Act. 2. During this era, Romantic composers drew their inspiration from all the following except A) Church. B) Drama. C) Nature. D) Literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Church. 3. Drawing creative inspiration from cultures of lands foreign to the composer is known as A) Nationalism. B) Realism. C) Exoticism. D) Program music. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exoticism. 4. A very important musical part of every middle-class home during the Romantic period was the ..... A) Piano. B) Violin. C) Resident composer/performer. D) Flute. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Piano. 5. Pindaric ode is also known as ..... ode. A) Greek. B) Roman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Greek. 6. It highlighted the importance of virtuoso artist during the Romantic period. A) Nationalism. B) Individualism. C) Collectivism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Individualism. 7. A theatrical presentation of a group or solo dancing to a musical accompaniment, usually with costume and scenic effects, conveying a story or theme. A) Concerto. B) Etude. C) Ballet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ballet. 8. The Romantic Period was NOT impacted by which historical event? A) The English Revolution. B) The Industrialization. C) The American Revolution. D) The French Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The English Revolution. 9. The Star Spangled Banner was written by: A) Wagner. B) John Philips Souza. C) Beethoven. D) Francis Scott Key. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Francis Scott Key. 10. What is The Tell-Tale Heart about? A) A man who steals the Declaration of Independence. B) A scientist creates a creature who terrorizes him. C) A man who killed another man because of his eye, who then hears his heartbeat while getting interrogated and goes mad. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A man who killed another man because of his eye, who then hears his heartbeat while getting interrogated and goes mad. 11. These are the main themes of musical composition during Romantic Era, EXCEPT: A) Nature. B) Feelings. C) Calamity. D) History. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Calamity. 12. The following are features of landscape painting, EXCEPT? A) Mountains. B) Bodies of water. C) Valleys. D) Roads. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Roads. 13. An era when people tried creating songs that could express their sentiments by means of song-like melodies, richer harmonies, denser textures, and a wider range of pitch. A) Classical Period. B) Neo-classical Period. C) Romantic Period. D) Renaissance Period. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Romantic Period. 14. Music composer known as" virtuoso pianist" . He was known for his symphonic poems where he translated literature into music. A) Frederic Chopin. B) Robert Schumann. C) Franz Liszt. D) Niccolo Paganini. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Franz Liszt. 15. He is part of the English literary circle called "Lake Poets" alongside Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. A) William Wordsworth. B) Edgar Allan Poe. C) William Woodsworth. D) William Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) William Wordsworth. 16. A slight holding back or pressing forward of tempo in music is known as A) Stop. B) Delaying. C) Stolen. D) Accelerating. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stolen. 17. Austrian composer, he composed more than six hundred "lieder": A) Franz Liszt. B) Frederic Chopin. C) Franz Schubert. D) Richard Wagner. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Franz Schubert. 18. He was the most famous animal sculptor of all time A) ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE. B) HECTOR BERLIOZ. C) ANTONIO CANOVA. D) FRANCIS RUDE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ANTOINE-LOUIS BARYE. 19. What 19th century composer focused primarily on piano compositions? A) Berlioz. B) Verdi. C) Bizet. D) Chopin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chopin. 20. The 1812 overture features what unusual sounds? A) Animal calls. B) Cannon fire and cathedral bells. C) Log drums. D) Claps, Snaps, and Stomps. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cannon fire and cathedral bells. 21. A group of Lieder, unified by a narrative theme A) Character Piece. B) Thematic Transformation. C) Song Cycle. D) Symphonic Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Song Cycle. 22. Shelley was exiled from Oxford for ..... A) Criticizing the monarchy. B) Not being an aristocrat. C) Advocating atheism. D) His public scandals after his wife's suicide. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Advocating atheism. 23. Romantic composers wrote about:nationalism, nature, fantastic or dream-like characters, and faraway lands/exotic places. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 24. Writers convey their ideas during the Romantic Literary Period through A) Art & music. B) Short stories & nonfiction. C) Poetry & novels. D) Tall tales & word of mouth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poetry & novels. 25. When did Christopher Columbus discover North America? A) 1492. B) 1619. C) 1607. D) 1620. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1492. 26. In Erlkonig, the piano accompaniment depicts the ..... A) Sadness of the father. B) Fear the son is feeling. C) The sound of the spinning wheel. D) The galloping of horses. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The galloping of horses. 27. A vocal form in which there is new music for each stanza of a poem. A) Absolute Music. B) Strophic. C) Through-Composed. D) Program Music. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Through-Composed. 28. Poetry, Literature, Arts, Tragedy, Love and Death are not the inspiration of the Romantic composer. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 29. The Romantic period established the position of the 'conductor' A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 30. It is the highest female voice. A) Tenor. B) Baritone. C) Alto. D) Soprano. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Soprano. 31. Homophonic texture is defined as: A) Two or more melodic lines happening at the same time. B) One single melodic line performed by multiple singers. C) One main melody accompanied by either voices or instruments. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) One main melody accompanied by either voices or instruments. 32. People of the Restoration period were rational, logical thinkers, but the Romantics felt that it was ..... that drove the mind. A) Knowledge. B) Emotions. C) Brain. D) Imagination. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagination. 33. It is theatrical pieces that tell a story through music. A) Musical Play. B) Dancing. C) Drama. D) Opera. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Opera. 34. From what country was Edvard Grieg the most famous composer? A) Austria. B) Sweden. C) Germany. D) Norway. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Norway. 35. Which of the following describes an all female choir? A) TTBB. B) SATB. C) SSAB. D) SSAA. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) SSAA. 36. Ireland was united with England in ..... A) 1829. B) 1832. C) 1830. D) 1801. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1801. 37. "Lieder" composers: A) Chopin and Liszt. B) Verdi and Puccini. C) Schumann and Schubert. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Schumann and Schubert. 38. Composers could finally use more dynamics when composing for which invention? A) Piccolo. B) Pianoforte. C) Printing Press. D) Trombone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pianoforte. 39. Romanticism is love for ..... A) Nature. B) Lover. C) Monarchy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nature. 40. What is a 14 line lyric poem with a single theme? A) Sonnet. B) Lyric. C) Ode. D) Soliloquy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sonnet. 41. Who was not a Romantic poet? A) William Wordsworth. B) Jane Austen. C) John Keats. D) William Cowper. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jane Austen. 42. Brahms was what kind of composer? A) Futuristic. B) Traditional. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Traditional. 43. In Romantic period, composers can express their emotion freely. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 44. Which of the following oil painting by the French painter Theodore Gericault, portraying amounted Napoleonioc cavalry officer who is ready to attack? A) Insane Woman. B) Third of May. C) The Death of Marat. D) Charging Chasseur. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Charging Chasseur. 45. When the Romantic period is considered to start? A) With the Industrial Revolution. B) With the French Revolution. C) With the Second World War. D) With the Technological Revolution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) With the French Revolution. 46. It is a painting from the Neoclassical Period that was originally a student work painted in 1808, it was enlarged and completed in 1827. A) The Oath of Horatti. B) The Death of Socrates. C) Oedipus and the Sphinx. D) Liberty Leading the People. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oedipus and the Sphinx. 47. J.S. Bach's death marked the end of which musical period? A) Baroque Period. B) Classical Period. C) Romantic Period. D) Impressionist Period. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Baroque Period. 48. This time saw a rise of A) Virtuosic performers. B) Virtuosic composers. C) Burlesque dancers. D) Male artists. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Virtuosic performers. 49. The Romantic Movement was an intellectual, artistic and literary movement that started in the second half of the 18th century. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 50. How many symphonies did Beethoven compose? A) 5. B) 9. C) 10. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 9. 51. Which composer was a classicist in the period? A) Brahms. B) Chopin. C) Liszt. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brahms. 52. What is Program Music? A) A song from an Opera. B) Music that tells a story. C) A type of song that people dance to. D) Music that is listed in a playbill. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Music that tells a story. 53. Which of the following is correct from highest to lowest of the Male Voice? A) Bass-Baritone-Tenor. B) Baritone-Bass-Tenor. C) Tenor-Baritone-Bass. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tenor-Baritone-Bass. 54. An instrumental composition from Romantic period that conveys images or scenes to tell short without text or lyrics. A) Vocal Music. B) Violin & String Music. C) Piano Music. D) Program Music. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Program Music. 55. Is an instrumental composition that conveys images or scenes to tell a short story without text or lyrics. A) Piano Music. B) Program Music. C) Symphonic Poems. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Program Music. 56. The generous pianist of Hungary A) Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. B) Franz Liszt. C) Hector Berlioz. D) Robert Schumann. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Franz Liszt. 57. Where and when did Romanticism begin? A) Western Europe, mid-16 century. B) Western Europe, mid-18 century. C) Eastern Europe, mid-16 century. D) Eastern Europe, mid-18 century. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Western Europe, mid-18 century. 58. The "leitmotiv" is a technique in Wagner's operas. It means that ..... A) Each character has a lot of musical notes. B) Each character has a musical "theme" . Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Each character has a musical "theme" . 59. Which is an instrumental musical composition, usually short, of considerable difficulty, and designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular musical skill? A) Etude. B) Romance. C) Nocturne. D) Polish. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Etude. 60. 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