Romanticism Quiz 60 (20 MCQs)

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1. People in the Romantic period were no longer willing to be ruled by a(n) ..... ; they insisted on having a voice in their government

Correct Answer: A) Absolute monarch.

2. Which of these was not a form of art in the Romanticism period.

Correct Answer: B) Plays.

3. In Spain, Wagner created the musical drama, conceived as a total work of art with continuous progress.

Correct Answer: B) False.

4. What is Doubling in Gothic Lit?

Correct Answer: B) When two or more characters or objects are parallel to each other in action or personality.

5. Who is known for writing the first truly American novel?

Correct Answer: B) James Fennimore Cooper.

6. Who focused on the lower and middle classes in Britain's early industrial age?

Correct Answer: A) Charles Dickens.

7. With firmness; without changing

Correct Answer: A) Steadfastly.

8. "TMBV":A social lesson of this story might be that

Correct Answer: B) People protect their personal privacy by wearing a public mask.

9. What did Emily Dickinson want to happen to her poems after her death?

Correct Answer: B) She wanted them destroyed by fire (burned).

10. The transcedentalists found their chief source of inspiration in .....

Correct Answer: A) Nature.

11. The Romantics thought that reality wasn't a machine, but rather an entity with a .....

Correct Answer: D) Spirit.

12. What is one principle of Transcendentalism?

Correct Answer: A) Belief in the inherent goodness of both people and nature.

13. Who was President when Rip woke up?

Correct Answer: C) George Washington.

14. He was a very influential writer in Romanticism

Correct Answer: D) Ralph Waldo Emerson.

15. In The Raven, when the author first heard the "rapping at his chamber door, " who did he think was outside?

Correct Answer: C) Some late night visitor.

16. What art movement came just before the Romantic art period?

Correct Answer: B) Baroque.

17. Noel is a ..... singer that travels across the country to play his music at various festivals.

Correct Answer: A) Nomadic.

18. What is the name given to the group of poets who wrote during the Romantic era?

Correct Answer: B) The Fireside Poets.

19. Victorian literature showed a more ..... presentation of life as it was rather than how it should be.

Correct Answer: C) Realistic.

20. "The Fall of the House of Usher":What did the narrator notice when he helped place Madeline's body in the tomb?

Correct Answer: B) Her cheeks were rosy.