Romanticism Quiz 56 (20 MCQs)

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1. "The sun smiled down on us." This is an example of .....
2. Among Blake's famous symbols, there are urban and industrial landscapes and machines which represent rationalism and oppression
3. Why was Ichabod Crane feeling sad when he left the party at the Van Tassel's home?
4. The Romantics' worldview was opposed to the ideals of .....
5. Dr. Heidegger invites his guests to his home to .....
6. It is build of wood-unfettered artistic expression in the patterns and details.
7. Widely existing; most common
8. Why did Thoreau decide to build a cabin on Walden Pond?
9. Sepulcher
10. Transcendentalists believed in:
11. A literary and artistic movement of the 18th and 19th centuries that placed value on emotion or imagination over reason, the individual over society, nature and wildness over human works, the country over the city, common people over the ruling class, and freedom over control or authority.
12. Which artist was an English landscape artist known for using sweeping brushstrokes to capture the power of nature?
13. Which facet of "Thanatopsis" make it a good example of Romantic poetry?
14. Who is NOT a Romantic artist?
15. Who wrote "Nature" and "Self-Reliance"
16. Whitman's personal beliefs most closely resembled Transcendentalism and he was well versed in the work of Emerson, but he also had a broad understanding of American and European religious traditions, language, and symbolism, which he used stylistically in his poetry. He employed traditional symbols such as the stars, moon, and earth, but also created his own symbology, which included lilacs, the calamus plant, and, of course, grass. Whitman's tone was exuberant and his diction, or word choice, is notable for its eccentricities; he used colloquial words, foreign words, technical words, and sometimes even made up his own words. Which of the following statements most closely summarizes the central idea of the above passage?
17. In the end, most of the inhabitants of Rip's village
18. Which of the following Romantic period writers wrote "Frankenstein" ?
19. Which of the following did NOT drive the Romantic writers in both purpose and style?
20. Based on the information in the poem, who was Ozymandias?