Literary Movements Quiz 9 (20 MCQs)

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1. What literary period emerged as a reaction of the Civil War?

Correct Answer: A) Realism.

2. Which period often portrayed animals with human characteristics?

Correct Answer: A) Native American.

3. During which time period did American writers pull away from biblical passages and rely more on science and reason?

Correct Answer: B) Revolution & Enlightenment.

4. In what century did the American Renaissance and its literary movements take place?

Correct Answer: D) 19th Century.

5. What was the impact of the train on Victorian society?

Correct Answer: D) It shrank the distance between cities.

6. Order, rule, proportion criteria are important and satire is the key element in literature.

Correct Answer: B) Neoclassicism.

7. What is the main characteristic of Romantic literature?

Correct Answer: B) Individualism.

8. What was celebrated during the Romantic period?

Correct Answer: D) All of the Above.

9. Realism emphasizes.....

Correct Answer: C) Representing things as they actually are.

10. For the Romantics, the development of "the self" became a major theme and self-awareness was a primary method.

Correct Answer: A) TRUE.

11. Which type of Colonial Literature is composed of myths, fables, and folktales?

Correct Answer: A) Native American Literature.

12. Transcendentalism is all of the following EXCEPT:

Correct Answer: D) A belief that all life is reincarnated.

13. A Rose for Emily, Nana and to Build a Fire are titles that belong to:

Correct Answer: A) The Naturalists.

14. Economy of the language is important the words should be intense and few in number.

Correct Answer: A) Imagism.

15. It had a great impact because it positively affected the feelings of the people

Correct Answer: D) Literary comedians.

16. The Harlem Renaissance occurred during which literary movement period?

Correct Answer: C) Modernism.

17. At its basic level, realism was grounded in

Correct Answer: D) The faithful portrayal of everyday life.

18. A characteristic of the Period Harlem Renaisssance is .....

Correct Answer: D) All are correct.

19. Brahmins and Trascendentalists took part in .....

Correct Answer: D) New Englands Reformers and Historians.

20. What is the order of the movements we studied?

Correct Answer: C) Puritanism, Rationalism, Romanticism, Realism.