This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Periods > Romantic > Romantic Period – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Romantic Period Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who was the leader of the first successful colony in Virginia, in 1607? A) John Smith. B) William Bradford. C) John Winthrop. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Smith. 2. Which texture involves the melody and accompaniment have a matching rhythm? A) Contrapuntal. B) Homophonic. C) Polyphonic. D) Monophonic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Homophonic. 3. What was the focus of the Romantic era? A) Primitive life. B) Heightened emotions. C) Religious exploration. D) Scientific discovery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Heightened emotions. 4. Franz Schubert is an Austrian composer who was most famous for his contributions to the lieder. What genre of music is a Lieder? A) Song. B) Sonata Form. C) Symphony. D) Measurement of water. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Song. 5. Who was Schubert buried next to? A) Beethoven. B) Haydn. C) Schumann. D) Mozart. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beethoven. 6. Which statement is TRUE of Romantic era music? A) Music was balanced and symmetrical. B) Music expressed intense feelings. C) Piano music was simple and easy to play. D) Composers only used a small range of notes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Music expressed intense feelings. 7. Romanticism was the era of abstract concepts and appreciation of nature that rejected: A) Harmony. B) Order. C) Rationalization. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 8. William Blake was a ..... poet A) Elizabethan. B) Victorian. C) Metaphysical. D) Pre-Romantic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pre-Romantic. 9. Which composer is known as the "father of both the string quartet and the symphony?" A) Haydn. B) Beethoven. C) Mahler. D) Mozart. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haydn. 10. The Transcontinental Railroad was completed during the Romantic period. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. Lyrical Ballads broughtabout a great change in literature, both in subject and style ..... and ..... were preferred A) Rural people/common language. B) Urban people/ common language. C) Rural people/grand style. D) Urban people/ grand style. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rural people/common language. 12. It is the high and low of a sound A) HARMONY. B) PITCH. C) MELODY. D) DYNAMICS. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) PITCH. 13. The concert overture grew out of the tradition of A) Gross concerts. B) Opera overtures. C) Cantatas. D) String quartets. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Opera overtures. 14. Which composer was known for writing almost exclusively piano music? A) Berlioz. B) Schubert. C) Chopin. D) Schumann. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chopin. 15. In Faure's 'In paradisum' which vocal line starts A) Soprano/ Treble. B) Bass. C) Alto. D) Tenor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Soprano/ Treble. 16. I am considered the "father" of the string quartet. My nickname was "The red priest, " because I was a priest, and had red hair. I wrote the piece "Four Seasons. A) Beethoven. B) Tchaikovsky. C) Bach. D) Vivaldi. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vivaldi. 17. Which among the stringed instrument is dominant? A) Violin. B) Guitar. C) Cello. D) Double Bass. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Violin. 18. An important trend in the Romantic time period was A) Imperialism. B) Nationalism. C) Socialism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nationalism. 19. Who inspired Romantic composers to be free artists? A) Mozart. B) Beethoven. C) Haydn. D) Schubert. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beethoven. 20. What is a type of program music written for textual materials including stories and plays? A) The Minuet. B) The Tone Poem. C) The Waltz. D) An Aria. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Tone Poem. 21. Which one doesn't emphasizes Romanticism? A) Individual. B) Emotional. C) Personal. D) Peace. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Peace. 22. What is a solemn and formal lyric poem about death? A) Elegy. B) Ode. C) Sonnet. D) Lyric poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elegy. 23. The Romantic period was a time of science, and all literature was based on facts and absolute truth. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 24. What classification of voice that is common to all male? A) Alto. B) Soprano. C) Baritone. D) Tenor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Baritone. 25. Known as Strauss the Elder, he wrote mostly waltzes. A) Brahms. B) Johann Strauss. C) Beethoven. D) Bach. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Johann Strauss. 26. Music is an element of opera that moves the action of a story, expresses emotions and moods, and deepens our understanding of the characters. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 27. An orchestral work consisting of several movements, which achieved its highest form during the classical period A) Sonata. B) Symphony. C) Symphony Orchestra. D) Orchestra. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symphony. 28. Music and what were intimately fused? A) Poetry. B) Art. C) Money. D) Theater. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry. 29. Which of the following was known for his virtuosic piano playing? A) Beethoven. B) Liszt. C) Schubert. D) Rossini. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Liszt. 30. The best tool to express one's feeling during Romantic Period is ..... A) Dance. B) Vocal Music. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vocal Music. 31. Who better synthesized music and drama? A) Mendelssohn. B) Weber. C) Wagner. D) Beethoven. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wagner. 32. What is the text of an Opera A) Aria. B) Libretto. C) Score. D) Recitative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Libretto. 33. Highest male voice A) Baritone. B) Bass. C) Tenor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tenor. 34. Choose what is NOT belong to the group. Composer interprets ..... into music. A) Imagery. B) Shape. C) Mood. D) Atmosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shape. 35. Which were popular instruments in the classical period? A) Violin. B) Guitar. C) Piano. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Piano. 36. What is the term for a musical phrase played smoothly? A) Stolen. B) Staccato. C) Adagio. D) Legato. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Legato. 37. Tchaikovsky's father always encouraged him to become a musician. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 38. What are the approximate dates of the romantic period? A) 1945-2000. B) 1750-1810. C) 1650-1720. D) 1820-1910. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1820-1910. 39. Music Publishing companies flourished during the Romantic Period. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 40. What word describes music of the Romantic Period? A) Emotional. B) Dreamy. C) Simple. D) Fancy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emotional. 41. Identify the movement which is characterized by:nature as out of control A) Romanticism. B) Neoclassicism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romanticism. 42. Who was the king of composers for the ballet during the Romantic period? A) Brahms. B) Schubert. C) Tchaikovsky. D) Saint-Saens. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tchaikovsky. 43. This type of romantic music focuses on music without text or words. A) VOCAL MUSIC. B) INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC. 44. During the Romantic period, themes of individualism and self expression became dominant in literature, art, and music. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 45. Melodies appealed to the A) Emotions. B) Rich. C) High-Brows. D) Wise. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emotions. 46. Which was true about Bach? A) He lost his hearing. B) He wrote "The Four Seasons" . . C) He was a priest. D) He had 20 children. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He had 20 children. 47. Beethoven was one of the first composers to write specifically for the ballet. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 48. Who developed the leitmotiv? A) Wagner. B) Verdi. C) Mozart. D) Bach. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wagner. 49. The Romantic period lasted approximately from ..... A) The 1550s to the late 1600. B) The 1770s to the mid-nineteenth century. C) The early nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The 1770s to the mid-nineteenth century. 50. Short single-movement form written for piano that usually incorporate many technical difficulties. A) Sonata. B) Character piece. C) Lied. D) Symphony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Character piece. 51. Which city became the perceived center of Western civilization by the middle of the nineteenth century? A) Paris. B) Tokyo. C) New York. D) London. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) London. 52. What is a sung dialogue or a vocal part that is performed following the pattern of speech rather than a melody? A) Aria. B) Recitative. C) Opera. D) Libretto. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aria. 53. WHO IS NOT A COMPOSER OF PROGRAM MUSIC? A) PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY. B) FRANZ LISZT. C) CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS. D) HECTOR BERLIOZ. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FRANZ LISZT. 54. Which composer below was a Russian Nationalistic composer famous for Ballet's-Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker? A) Tchaikovsky. B) Berlioz. C) Schumann. D) Dvorak. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tchaikovsky. 55. Who was the master of the Romantic Art song? A) Brahms. B) Saint-Saens. C) Tchaikovsky. D) Schubert. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Schubert. 56. What instrument could Mozart play? A) Saxophone. B) Clarinet. C) Piano. D) Violin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Piano. 57. Which year is during the Baroque Period? A) 1802. B) 1742. C) 1827. D) 1764. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1742. 58. According to Wordsworth, ..... is a "spontaneous overflow of emotion." A) Prose. B) Poetry. C) Song. D) Short Story. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetry. 59. What was invented during the Romantic Period? A) Cell phones. B) Toilets. C) Dynamite. D) Dry erase markers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dynamite. 60. "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" are William Blake's poems that explore: A) Good and evil. B) Innocence and experience. C) Love and marriage. D) Happy and sad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Innocence and experience. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesPeriods QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesRomantic Period Quiz 1Romantic Period Quiz 2Romantic Period Quiz 3Romantic Period Quiz 5Romantic Period Quiz 6Romantic Period Quiz 7Romantic Period Quiz 8Romantic Period Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books