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
b) in
c) in
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.
d) poetry.
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 spirit revealed to him?
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 could perform his visionary studies?
a)
b)
c)
d)
11. William Wordsworth and another
important poet of his period, who was also a great friend of 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)
c) The Nobel Price of
Literature.
d) Count of
14. His sister was very important
for Wordsworth’s works. How was she called?
a) Caroline.
b) Annete.
c) Dorothy.
d) Mary-Anne.
15. Which of these works correspond
to the Wordsworth’s first published works?
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 writing is?
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-like society. How was that society
called?
a) Anarchic-communism.
b) Neoromanticism.
c) Pantisocracy.
d) Autocracy.
19. What did happen when Coleridge
met William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy?
a) Coleridge felt in
love with Dorothy.
b) they
proposed to found a poet society.
c) they
became immediate friends.
d) they
travelled to
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 several ideas or concepts. The discipline
that studies symbols is called…
a) Sociolinguistics.
b) Lexicology.
c) Semiotics.
d) Pragmatics.
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.
Academic
year 2007/2008
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Asier Escrivà Gonzàlez
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