Romanticism Quiz 87 (20 MCQs)

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1. The narrator of "The Black Cat" changes as he drinks and becomes more temperamental. This makes him a:

Correct Answer: A) Dynamic character.

2. How many central ideas were core to the Romantic?

Correct Answer: A) 3.

3. What started Ralph Waldo Emerson's spiritual journey to Transcendentalism?

Correct Answer: B) His wife died young.

4. What is a synonym for "optimistic?"

Correct Answer: B) Hopeful.

5. In "Ode to the West Wind, " the line "make me thy lyre" suggests what?

Correct Answer: C) He hopes the wind will help him write poetry.

6. Romantics value..... over logic.

Correct Answer: A) Intuition.

7. Is the speaker in "Snowbound" an adult or a child?

Correct Answer: A) A child.

8. Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson are both

Correct Answer: C) Transcendentalists.

9. American Romanticism placed great faith in .....

Correct Answer: C) Inner experience.

10. ..... is the use of wit, humor, mockery, or ridicule to expose flaws of society or industry and change them.

Correct Answer: A) Satire.

11. The Transcendentalists believed in self-reliance and free thought.

Correct Answer: A) True.

12. The concept that every element of a story should contribute to a single emotional effect of the story is called:

Correct Answer: D) Single Effect.

13. Which statement shows how the opinion held by American Romantic writers changed from the Age of Reason?

Correct Answer: A) Cities are centers of corruption and ugliness.

14. How many main major in E's pootry?

Correct Answer: C) 6.

15. What is the rare wine in the cellar called?

Correct Answer: B) Amontillado.

16. Who came up with germ theory?

Correct Answer: A) Louis Pasteur.

17. Characteristic Feature:The use of diagonals to show the peak of an emotion or moment (versus a regular moment).

Correct Answer: A) Neoclassicism.

18. Kansas City calls itself the City of Fountains, its goal is to build a new public fountain every year.

Correct Answer: B) Comma splice.

19. What happens to Tom Walker's money at the end of the story?

Correct Answer: D) It turns into cinders and ashes.

20. (1880-1910) Named and popularized in England by the Architect Richard Norman Shaw.

Correct Answer: C) Queen Anne Style.