Romanticism Quiz 77 (20 MCQs)

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1. What time does the Raven take place?

Correct Answer: A) Midnight.

2. Match the following characteristic to its appropriate age.City life corrupts people

Correct Answer: C) Romanticism.

3. What war took place?

Correct Answer: B) French Revolution.

4. "She visits my grave when the night winds wail" This is an example of:

Correct Answer: A) Personification.

5. What were the main characteristics of Transcendentalism?

Correct Answer: A) More emphasis on nature and breaking away from social reform.

6. Which of the following works is NOT a Romantic-era piece of literature?

Correct Answer: A) Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

7. Tom Walker's wife is best described as

Correct Answer: D) A fierce shrew, always nagging and yelling.

8. Poetry that does not rhyme and does not have regular meter

Correct Answer: A) Free verse.

9. Which author spent most of their life to make women equal members of society?

Correct Answer: A) Margaret Fuller.

10. The steamboat and ..... revolutionized transportation

Correct Answer: A) Railroad.

11. According to Finney, how could an individual prove his/her faith?

Correct Answer: C) By doing good deeds.

12. What is the tone of "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" ?

Correct Answer: C) Fearful.

13. Who with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets?

Correct Answer: D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

14. True or false:Romantics believed that truth could be found through pure, raw emotion.

Correct Answer: A) True.

15. The section of a story where the author introduces the characters and setting, sets the tone or mood, and gives background information

Correct Answer: E) Exposition.

16. ..... is an acknowledgement of the accuracy of a particular point made by the opposing side

Correct Answer: C) Concession.

17. Writers like Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne were referred to as all EXCEPT?

Correct Answer: B) Transcendentalists.

18. Wagner called this way his musical theatre, emphasizing the idea of a continuous action that put together all the elements of opera.

Correct Answer: A) Drama.

19. The Prelude was written in 1806

Correct Answer: B) False.

20. The antagonist in the story is .....

Correct Answer: C) Lady Van Winkle.