This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Romanticism – Quiz 90 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Romanticism Quiz 90 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following best describes "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau? A) He lived simply in nature for two years and wrote about what he thought about during that time. B) He is a fraud and he never lived in the woods at all. C) He wrote about how nature can teach you transcendent lessons about God. D) He wrote about how you should stand up for what you believe is morally right. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He lived simply in nature for two years and wrote about what he thought about during that time. 2. But the sea in darkness calls A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. E) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 3. Who wrote The Chambered Nautilus? A) Oliver Wendell Holmes. B) Walt Whitman. C) John Greenleaf Whittier. D) Nathaniel Hawthorne. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oliver Wendell Holmes. 4. Upstanding A) Honest; respectable. B) Dishonest; disrespectful. C) Funny. D) Gloomy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Honest; respectable. 5. Characteristic Features:Was used to describe the softer versions of the Baroque style. A) Revival. B) Neoclassism. C) Romanticism. D) Rococo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rococo. 6. How did Charles Finney challenge traditional Protestant beliefs? A) By allowing women to be Ministers. B) By allowing Native Americans to become Ministers. C) By telling congregations that each person was responsible for their own salvation. D) By writing an Essay titled "Common Sense". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By telling congregations that each person was responsible for their own salvation. 7. All of the following are Romanticism characteristics except: A) Finds inspiration in myth, legend, and folk culture. B) Looks backward to the wisdom of the past and distrusts progress. C) Used writing to explore their inner and outer lives for signs of the workings of God. D) Champions individual freedom and the worth of the individual. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Used writing to explore their inner and outer lives for signs of the workings of God. 8. What personal adversity did Beethoven struggle to overcome during his adult life? A) Alcoholism. B) Drug addiction. C) Blindness. D) Deafness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Deafness. 9. Dark Romantics focused on ..... A) Emotions, imagination, the supernatural. B) Real life occurrences and the harshness of nature. C) War and its difficulties. D) Women's rights and the need for new laws. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emotions, imagination, the supernatural. 10. Who invented the leitmotiv? A) Verdi. B) Wagner. C) Mozart. D) Tchaikovsky. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wagner. 11. Repetition of the initial consonant sounds beginning several words in sequence A) Alliteration. B) Antithesis. C) Ethos. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 12. Which of the following words means "deathly thin?" A) Pallid. B) Sullen. C) Enshrouded. D) Tremulous. E) Emaciated. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Emaciated. 13. In Poetry terms, what is apostrophe? A) A comparison of 2 unlike things using like or as. B) Figure of speech in which the poet addresses an absent person, an abstract idea, or a thing. C) The repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences. D) The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figure of speech in which the poet addresses an absent person, an abstract idea, or a thing. 14. The American Revolution provided popular subjects for American historical fiction. True or False? A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 15. True or False:spiritualtity and connection with nature grew during this time period A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 16. Musical features of Romanticism A) Break of form rules, use of dissonances, expansion of instrumentation, no recycling of compositions. B) Strict rules in form, use of central tonality and modulation to related keys, limited instrumental groups. C) Use of ritornello form, string instruments and harpsichord, discovery of major/minor system. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Break of form rules, use of dissonances, expansion of instrumentation, no recycling of compositions. 17. Read this Dickinson poem and use it to answer this question:Fame is a fickle food / Upon a shifting plate / Whose table once a / Guest but not / The second time is set / Whose crumbs the crows inspect / And with ironic caw / Flap past it to the / Farmer's corn / Men eat of it and die Question:What is the main reason that the crows flap past the "fickle food" of fame? A) Fame is terrifying. B) Fame creates jealousy and bitterness. C) Fame is poisonous. D) Fame speaks insincerely and lies. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fame is poisonous. 18. Why would the devil steal treasures? A) Because he wanted to. B) Because it was "ill obtained". C) Because he is mean. D) Because he did not like the pirate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because it was "ill obtained". 19. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Romanticism? A) Emphasis on individualism. B) Celebration of nature. C) Rationality and logic. D) Focus on the imagination. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rationality and logic. 20. The core principles of the Romanticism movement were outlined by A) W. Turner. B) W.Wordsworth. C) S. Coleridge. D) R.Southey. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) W.Wordsworth. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesRomanticism Quiz 1Romanticism Quiz 2Romanticism Quiz 3Romanticism Quiz 4Romanticism Quiz 5Romanticism Quiz 6Romanticism Quiz 7Romanticism Quiz 8Romanticism Quiz 9Romanticism Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books