Romanticism Quiz 48 (20 MCQs)

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1. Excerpt from "The Raven":Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor, " I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door-Only this and nothing more." Question 1:What is the primary theme conveyed in the excerpt from "The Raven" ?
2. The Treaty of Paris in 1783 marked:
3. Transcendentalism, a subgenre of American Romanticism, was based in which of the following beliefs?
4. Romanticism is all about sappy love stories.
5. Overall, the Romantic writers believed
6. ..... is best known as a reformer of insane asylums during the Romantic period.
7. What architectural style became popular during the Romantic period?
8. Wordsworth was interested in extraordinary people and situations.
9. Who is the "Sylvan historian" ?
10. The famous preface to Lyrical Ballads, considered the Manifesto of the Romantic movement was published in the .....
11. "TMBV":Based on the rest of the story, what can you infer about the meaning of the following passage? "When the friend shows his inmost heart to his friend; the lover to his best beloved; when man does not vainly shrink from the eye of his Creator, loathsomely treasuring up the secret of his sin; then deem me a monster, for the symbol beneath which I have lived and die! I look around me, and lo! on every visage a Black Veil."
12. Where does Thoreau live during the 2 years described in the essay?
13. Ralph Waldo Emerson's most known essay was .....
14. Which of the following techniques does the poet use to emphasise the feeling of bleakness/despair that affects everyone and from which there seems to be no escape?
15. When the narrator tells more than one character's thoughts or feelings, it is called:
16. Turner is known for painting:
17. In "The Devil and Tom Walker, " what Romantic element best explains the role of the Devil?
18. Which of the following might be ideas that one can infer from the poem?
19. Thomas Cole's paintings have historical allusion to contemporary issues concerning
20. An offshoot movement of Romanticism that was rooted in the belief of a realm of spiritual or transcendent truths beyond what humans can know through their senses.