This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Romantic > Romanticism – Quiz 32 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Romanticism Quiz 32 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is a "Schubertiad" ? A) A 19th century fan club. B) A song about eating sherbet. C) A social gathering for music and poetry that featured Schubert's songs and piano music. D) Any composer who lives a bohemian life style. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A social gathering for music and poetry that featured Schubert's songs and piano music. 2. Which is not a trait of Romanticism? A) Belief in the individual. B) Draws inspiration from Science. C) Belief in the solitary hero. D) Idealized views of relationships. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Draws inspiration from Science. 3. What is a nonconformist? A) A genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction and horror, death, and at times romance. B) A person whose behavior or views do not conform to prevailing ideas or practices. C) Any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material. D) A tendency to expect the best possible outcome. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A person whose behavior or views do not conform to prevailing ideas or practices. 4. Valuing logic, planning, and cultivation best describes the belief of what movement? A) Rationalism. B) Romanticism. C) Transcendentalism. D) Dark Romanticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rationalism. 5. When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongueCould scarcely cry " 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!"So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep. This stanza depicts A) Poets sadness over the death of his mother. B) Poet is giving a background of his situation. C) Poet is crying for help. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poet is giving a background of his situation. 6. Serene A) The combination of simultaneous musical notes in a chord; to be in unison. B) A chronological misplacing of persons, events, objects, or customs in regard to each other. C) Marked by or suggestive of utter calm and unruffled repose or quietude. D) A dead body especially of a human being. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Marked by or suggestive of utter calm and unruffled repose or quietude. 7. The promise between us was a delicate flower. A) Idiom. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 8. Which of the following was not typically associated with Walt Whitman's poetry? A) Iambic pentameter. B) Free verse. C) Catalogues/lists. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iambic pentameter. 9. The theory that life forms develop from simpler forms is known as: A) Secularization. B) Organic evolution. C) Realism. D) Conservatism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Organic evolution. 10. In the Compromise of 1850, California became a ..... A) Free state. B) Slave state. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free state. 11. What are some of the characteristics of the Baroque period? A) Ornamentation and Decoration. B) Clean and basic. C) Loud and bombastic. D) Soft and quiet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ornamentation and Decoration. 12. Most of the operas written by Verdi were based on theatre written by ..... A) Wagner. B) Shakespeare. C) Shiller. D) Quevedo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shakespeare. 13. By the time he was 45, Beethoven ..... A) Gave up composing to concentrate on his career as a pianist. B) Gave up his career as a pianist to concentrate on his composing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gave up his career as a pianist to concentrate on his composing. 14. Romantic Hero A) Natty Bumpo. B) Ben Franklin. C) Jonathan Edwards. D) Chief Dekanawida. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Natty Bumpo. 15. What did Romantic writers elevate over reason? A) Faith, hope, and love. B) Imagination, feeling, intuition. C) Independence, order, government. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagination, feeling, intuition. 16. The main characteristic of Romaticism style was ..... A) All composers must follow patters to write their music. B) All composers wrote music following their own feelings. C) Music was composed for Kings and important people. D) Musicians wrote music thinking about country's feelings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All composers wrote music following their own feelings. 17. Wordsworth aims at the original state of harmony with nature. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 18. What is the mood of James Russell Lowell's poem "The First Snowfall" ? A) Feminism. B) Warmth vs. cold. C) Solemn/sad. D) Happy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Solemn/sad. 19. Virtuoso is A) A person with exceptional skills in musical theory. B) A person with exceptional skills in the performance of an instrument or voice. C) A person with exceptional skills in composing music. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A person with exceptional skills in the performance of an instrument or voice. 20. What is the only word that the raven utters? A) Lenore. B) Quoth. C) Nothing. D) Nevermore. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nevermore. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesRomanticism Quiz 1Romanticism Quiz 2Romanticism Quiz 3Romanticism Quiz 4Romanticism Quiz 5Romanticism Quiz 6Romanticism Quiz 7Romanticism Quiz 8Romanticism Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books