ROMANTICISM
QUIZ

 
 

1. When did the romanticism appear?

 
   a) in the High Middle
Ages.

   b) in the beginning of
the 20th century.

   c) around the middle-late of the 18th century.

   d) during the late 19th

century.
 

2. Where was originated romanticism?

 

   a) in the United States of America.

   b) in Western Europe.
   c) in Russia.

   d) in the Scandinavian
lands.

 
 

3. What were the main

characteristics of romanticism?

 
   a) artistic
emphasis on intuition, imagination and feeling.

   b) presence
of warm colours in visual art.

   c) absence
of using any technological developments.
   d) return
to the classical ideology of art.

 
4. Why did romanticism appear?

 
   a) as
an opposition to the Russian Revolution.

   b) because
the technological contribution.

   c) as
a result of the publication of the Theory of Evolution.
   d) as a revolt against the rationalism of the
Enlightenment period.

 
5. Which is the most radical
opposite of romanticism?

   a) Bohemianism.
   b) Nationalism.

   c)
Classicism.

   d) Expressionism.
 

6. Who was William Blake?

 

   a) an
American philosopher.

   b) a
famous psycho-analyst
   c) a British poet and artist.

   d) a
polemical Anglican priest.

 
 

7. Blake is famous by writing…

 

   a) theatre
works.
   b) journals
and essays about human behaviour.
   c) novels
and short stories.
 
 
8. Blake’s best known book/s are called…

 
   a) Ecclesiastical
Sketches.
   b) The Importance of
Being Earnest.

   c) Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.

   d) Neverending
Story.
 

 
9. When Blake’s brother died, his
spirit appeared to Blake. What did the spir
 

   a) the technique of combining text and pictures.

   b) a
new cooking recipe.
   c) the
date of his death.

   d) the
prophecies of Blake’s works.
 
 

10. What was the city in which Blake

believed was the only place where he co
visionary studies?
 

   a) Jerusalem.
   b) Rome.
   c) New
York

   d) London.
 
 

11. William Wordsworth and another

important poet of his period, who was a
him, wrote the
famous Lyrical Ballads. Who was the other important poet?
   a) William Shakespeare.

   b) William Blake.
   c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

   d) Samuel Beckett.
 
 

12. Wordsworth’s most important work

was…
 
   a) The
Prelude.

   b) The Solitary Reaper.

   c) The Excursion.
   d) The world is too
much with us.

 
 
13. What title was given to
Wordsworth in the late years of his life (1843-1850

 
   a) The title of “Sir”.
   b) England’s Poet
Laureate.

   c) The Nobel Price of

Literature.
   d) Count of Cornwall.
 

 
14. His sister was very important
for Wordsworth’s works. How was she calle
 

   a) Caroline.
   b) Annete.
   c) Dorothy.

   d) Mary-Anne.
 
15. Which of these works correspond
to the Wordsworth’s first published wor

 
   a) The Prelude and The Excursion.
   b) An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches.

   c) Songs of Innocence
and Songs of Experience.
   d) Oedipus Rex and Antigone.
 

 
16. How was Samuel Taylor
Coleridge’s infancy?
 

   a) very
amazing.
   b) a
normal infancy, which was irrelevant to his future works.
   c) he
travelled a lot around the world.

   d) hard, because problems with his family.

 
 

17. One of Coleridge’s most famous

works was Kubla Khan. What type of wr
 
   a) a
political and philosophical work.
   b) a poem.

   c) a
critical writing.
   d) a
narration.
 
 
18. Coleridge and his friend, the
poet Southey, founded a utopian commune-li
that society
called?

 
   a) Anarchic-communism.
   b) Neoromanticism.
   d) Autocracy.
 
 
19. What did happen when Coleridge
met William Wordsworth and his sister
 
   a) Coleridge felt in
love with Dorothy.

   b) they
proposed to found a poet society.
   c) they became immediate friends.
   d) they
travelled to France.
 
 
20. Around
1796, Coleridge started taking… What class of drugs?

 
   a) alcohol.
   b) cocaine.
   c) cannabis.
   d) opium.
 

 
21. Symbols are different images
or sounds in general, which represent severa
The discipline
that studies symbols is called…
 
   a) Sociolinguistics.
   b) Lexicology.

   c)
Semiotics.
   d) Pragmatics.
 
 
22.
A sword symbol often represents…
   a)
Authority.
   b) Peace.
   c) Faith.
   d) Greed.

 
 
23. The colour black usually refers
to…
 
   a) Love.
   b) Nature.

   c) Death.
   d) Freedom.
 
 
24. What is a metaphor?
 

   a) The repetition of
the final sound of a sentence.
   b) A
comparison between a group of things that have a
hidden relation.
   c) The substitution of
a word or a sentence for a name.
   d) A statement that is too general and that does not consider all
the facts.
 
 

25. The
burglar disappeared like a ghost. What is this sentence?
 
  
a) A metaphor.
  
b) An allegory.
  
c) A synecdoche.
   d) A simile.

 
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