This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Romanticism – Quiz 75 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Romanticism Quiz 75 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Fireside Poets focused on important social issues like: A) Witch trials. B) Communism. C) Abolition of slavery. D) The Holocaust. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abolition of slavery. 2. Which is not a characteristic of Romanticisim? A) Value intuition over reasoning. B) Educated sophistication is better than youthful innocence. C) Society = CorruptionNature = Truth, beauty, and freedom. D) Inspiration found in supernatural tales and myths. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Educated sophistication is better than youthful innocence. 3. The idee fixe is also known as the A) Recurring theme or leitmotif. B) Adagio. C) Deemed. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Recurring theme or leitmotif. 4. What is the "great error in Rip's" character? A) Obedience. B) Laziness. C) Playfulness. D) Gossiping. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Laziness. 5. The raven is a symbol of ..... A) Death. B) A messenger. C) An omen. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 6. Characteristic Features:Decorated with scrolls, vines, shell-shapes, and delicate geometric patterns. A) Revival. B) Neoclassism. C) Romanticism. D) Rococo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rococo. 7. A reference within a work of literature to something outside of it: A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Hyperbole. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 8. In "The Fall of The House of Usher, " Roderick and Madeline are A) Husband and wife. B) Twins. C) Father and daughter. D) Best friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Twins. 9. True or false. Romanticism started in the 17th century. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 10. Who was not a Gothic writer? A) Edgar Allan Poe. B) Nathaniel Hawthorne. C) Herman Melville. D) Patrick Henry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Patrick Henry. 11. What did transcendentalists emphasize in order to connect with God and the universe? A) Rational thinking and empirical evidence. B) Physical rituals and religious practices. C) Personal intuition and spiritual experiences. D) Social conformity and external guidance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personal intuition and spiritual experiences. 12. The following line is an example of alliteration. A) "Doubting dreaming dreams no one dared to dream before.". B) "But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only". C) But the Raven still beguiling all my fancy into smiling". D) "'Wrecth, ' I cried, 'thy God hath lent thee-by these angels he hath sent thee." '. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Doubting dreaming dreams no one dared to dream before.". 13. How much of the total wealth did the European elites possess? A) 30-40%. B) 20-30%. C) 40-50%. D) 60-70%. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 30-40%. 14. "TMBV": "The Minister's Black Veil" is a parable, which means that characters, events, and details of setting A) Are described in realistic detail. B) Are gloomy and sometimes terrifying. C) Are usually historical in nature. D) Are simplified to teach a moral lesson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Are simplified to teach a moral lesson. 15. What feeling does Irving want to arouse with the setting of his story "The Devil and Tom Walker?" A) Anger. B) Optimism. C) Hope. D) Foreboding. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Foreboding. 16. The first cat's name was: A) Ember. B) Pluto. C) Poseidon. D) Zeus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pluto. 17. Self-reliance and individualism must outweigh external authority and blind conformity to custom and tradition. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 18. What is the central idea of the following passage (paragraph 13)?So where's the romance? American Romanticism and Transcendentalism are not about romance, per se, but they do have something to do with love-the love of truth, the love of beauty, and the love of nature. Like romantic love, Romanticism is characterized by optimism, idealism, and intuition. Romanticism and Transcendentalism, however, direct all of this love and optimism not toward another person, but toward the natural world and the divine within ourselves. The ideals of "big R" Romanticism, as well as Transcendentalism, are woven into the fabric of the American psyche. We can see their effects in movies about people who retreat to nature to become closer to themselves or reassess their life's purpose. We see these themes played out in stories about rugged individualists. A) Romanticism is the singular most influential social and philosophical movement in the United States. B) Romanticism has lost significance and relevance in our increasingly technology-based world. C) The principles and values of Romanticism are still present in modern America and everyday life. D) In recent years, Romantic ideas and beliefs have widely replaced traditional religious practices. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The principles and values of Romanticism are still present in modern America and everyday life. 19. According to the text, the journey in American Romantic literature can best be characterized as A) Escaping duty in order to do what one pleases. B) Leaving civilization and entering the world of nature. C) Rejecting traditional poetry and inventing new forms. D) Abandoning all intellectual pursuits for a frontier life. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Leaving civilization and entering the world of nature. 20. The romantic authors like Emerson, Bryant, and Thoreau would have rejected the idea of "manifest destiny" and found the results of it immoral. A) True. B) False. 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