This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Introductions > Overview > Literary Movements – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Literary Movements Quiz 8 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who were some of the major female writers during the Victorian Period? A) The Brontes. B) William Wordsworth. C) William Shakespeare. D) Charles Dickens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Brontes. 2. Identify the movement this is from: "She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength. But now there was a dull stare in her eyes, whose gaze was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It was not a glance of reflection, but rather indicated a suspension of intelligent thought." A) Puritanism. B) Rationalism. C) Romanticism. D) Realism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Realism. 3. Emphasis on freedom and self-expression A) Neoclassicism. B) Romanticism. C) Victorian Movement. D) Realism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Romanticism. 4. What are the characteristics of the "lost generation" as a disillusioned postwar generation? A) Lost values, belief in human progress, and a mood of futility and despair leading to hedonism. B) Lost values, belief in human progress, and a mood of hope and optimism leading to productivity. C) Strong values, belief in human progress, and a mood of futility and despair leading to isolation. D) Strong values, belief in human progress, and a mood of hope and optimism leading to collaboration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lost values, belief in human progress, and a mood of futility and despair leading to hedonism. 5. Often referred to as the movement between the wars A) Romanticism. B) Realism. C) Modernism. D) Contemporary Period. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Modernism. 6. The characters in the stories of Realism were more important than A) The plot. B) The setting. C) The conflict. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The plot. 7. Realist writing subjects included ..... A) American entrepreneurs. B) European monarchs. C) Animals in the jungle. D) Shop girls, factory workers, corrupt politicians. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shop girls, factory workers, corrupt politicians. 8. In Realism, writers began to look at ..... A) Local manners of everyday people. B) Global issues. C) Rational thought. D) In-depth emotions of the elite. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Local manners of everyday people. 9. What is the central premise of Rationalism? A) There is no God. B) Classical Christianity is superstitious. C) Human reason will facilitate American independence. D) The Enlightenment brought about great misunderstanding. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Human reason will facilitate American independence. 10. Realists accepted symbolism in the subjects of their writing. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 11. What is the significance of the term "lost generation" in relation to post-World War I writers? A) It refers to a generation of writers who were lost in their search for meaning after the war. B) It refers to a generation of writers who were lost in their search for success after the war. C) It refers to a generation of writers who were lost in their search for love after the war. D) It refers to a generation of writers who were lost in their search for adventure after the war. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It refers to a generation of writers who were lost in their search for meaning after the war. 12. How did industrialism impact Victorian society? A) It had no impact. B) It caused unemployment. C) It decreased wealth. D) It increased wealth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It increased wealth. 13. Identify the movement this is from: "There was another interesting set of statistics that a person might have gathered in Packingtown-those of the various afflictions of the workers. When Jurgis had first inspected the packing plants with Szedvilas, he had marveled while he listened to the tale of all the things that were made out of the carcasses of animals ..... " A) Puritanism. B) Rationalism. C) Romanticism. D) Realism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Realism. 14. In which century did the American Renaissance its literary movements take place? A) 17th Century. B) 18th Century. C) 19th Century. D) 20th Century. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 19th Century. 15. Which literary work uses the technique "Stream of consciusness" ? A) Song of Myself. B) To build a Fire. C) A Rose for Emily. D) The Love song of Alfred Prufrock. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Love song of Alfred Prufrock. 16. This literary movement's description is as follows:The South this time had to rise above what was occurring after WWII and during the Civil Rights movement. The writers of this time were proving that Southern literature should be respected. There were also authors who started in the first renaissance and continued into the second. A) Southern Renaissance 1. B) Civil War. C) Southern Renaissance #2. D) New York Poets. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Southern Renaissance #2. 17. Which of the following writers is NOT considered part of the "lost generation" ? A) F. Scott Fitzgerald. B) William Shakespeare. C) Ernest Hemingway. D) T.S. Eliot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Shakespeare. 18. This literary movement was about art as inspiration, the spiritual and BEAUTY of nature A) Puritanism. B) The Romantic Period. C) The Enlightenment Era. D) Realism/Naturalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Romantic Period. 19. Writers and philosophers believed in the power of emptions, imagination, and connection to the natural world A) Romanticism. B) Realism. C) Modernism. D) Contemporary Period. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romanticism. 20. This realism sub-genre is also know on as The Ugly Truth because of its harsh literature. A) Romanticism. B) Regionalism. C) Naturalism. D) Post-Modernism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Naturalism. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIntroductions QuizzesLiterary Movements Quiz 1Literary Movements Quiz 2Literary Movements Quiz 3Literary Movements Quiz 4Literary Movements Quiz 5Literary Movements Quiz 6Literary Movements Quiz 7Literary Movements Quiz 9Literary Movements Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books