WorksheetsUnit 3 Test: Romanticism, Dark Romanticism, Transcendentalism
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 4hrs 10mins
"The Devil and Tom Walker"
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Washington Irving
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
"Self Reliance" and "Nature"
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldon Emerson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Washington Irving
"Walden" and "Civil Disobedience"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Henry David Thoreau
Washington Irving
"The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Raven"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar Allen Poe
"Moby Dick"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
"The Minister's Black Veil"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Washington Irving
Which of the following is a main trait of the Romantic Period?
Poetry is the highest expression of imagination
Feeling, emotion, and intuition are valued over reason
Nature's path leads to spiritual enlightenment
All of the above
The characteristics of American Romantic Literature can best be summarized as
Highlighting the "fantastic" elements of the human experience
Human emotion and feeling were valued over reason
Taking one through supernatural or imaginative settings
All of the above
What are the five I's of Romanticism?
Imagination, Intuition, Idealism, Inspiration, and Individuality
Idolatry, Imagery, Imagination, Intuition, and Inspiration
Idolatry, Individuality, Isolationism, Intuition, and Inspiration
Imagery, Idolatry, Inspiration, Idealism, and Ingenious
Followers of the Transcendentalist movement are characterized by all of the following except:
nature admirers
negativity
simplicity over materialism
withdrawn from society
Which of the following is a characteristic of both Romanticism and Dark Romanticism?
Nature can be scary and deadly.
Humans are essentially turbulent and madness is a potential state of any mind.
Humans are essentially good.
Nature is mysterious and amazing.
Why did the Fireside Poets receive that name?
Their poems were so horrible that people threw them in the fire.
People often read their poems by the fireside.
They wrote about burning witches.
Nathaniel Hawthorne gave them that name.
A___________is a pattern, thought, item that arises in literature over and over again.
Symbol
Alliteration
motif
syllable
Moby Dick symbolizes
God
The Universe
Obsession
All of the above
Which of the following is not true about both Romanticism and Dark Romanticism?
Both emphasize the beauty and healing power of nature
Both place their stories firmly in the heart of nature
Both avoid placing their stories in large cities and factories
Both focus on stories that concern individuals and their motives
Which is true about the Fireside Poets?
They read their own works by the fire
They were Dark Romantics
They were all Transcendentalists
They were considered America's first poets
Ralph Waldo Emerson directly inspired Henry David Thoreau to attempt to live by his own means in a secluded area when Emerson wrote which story?
"The Cross of Snow"
Self Reliance
Life in the Woods
Walden
The Transcendentalists believed that:
Nature was a scary place
Human madness was frequently found among most people
Humans were essentially good
Thinking was better than feeling
Nathaniel Hawthorne's focus on secret sin finds full symbolic expression in which item in his story, "The Minister's Black Veil"?
The veil itself
The town
The church
The graveyard
"While I nodded, nearly napping" is an example of...
The Pathetic Fallacy
Alliteration
Foil
Irony
What does Ahab offer the men in exchange for the white whale?
red coin
brown coin
gold coin
silver coin
Why does Ahab have a bone leg?
He lost it in the war.
It became infected.
A pirate cut his leg off.
Moby Dick took it off.
Moby Dick "Like a whole shock of wheat"
simile
metaphor
hyperbole
pesonfication
Moby Dick "To me, the White Whale is that wall."
simile
metaphor
hyperbole
personification
Moby Dick reflects Dark Romanticism because it contains characters that are unstable, violent, and greedy.
True
False
Moby Dick reflects only Dark Romanticism (and not Romanticism) in the way that it takes place on the open sea.
True
False
Protagonist of "Moby Dick"
Ishmael
Captain Ahab
Queequeg
Moby Dick
Starbuck is fearful of God, rational, and calm. Captain Ahab is wild, obsessed, and sometimes thinks of himself as God. The two characters are_______________of one another.
alliteration
characters
protagonists
foils
Antagonist of "Moby Dick"
Captain Ahab
Ishmael
Moby Dick
Starbuck
When Ahab's madness is reflected in the stormy weather (as if affected by it) , this is called...
alliteration
onomatopoeia
hyperbole
Pathetic Fallacy
What was the mood at the beginning of "The Fall of the House of Usher"?
scary
happy
calm
excitable
Romanticism is the name for the literary period that followed the Age of __________ (The Revolutionary Period) in America.
Rationalism
Radicalism
Reason
Refuge
Inspiration
Artists are technical masters.
Artists are inspired creators.
Romantic artists and authors believed in...
going with the flow and being spontaneous
getting everything precise
_____________was emphasized over reason.
money
beauty
power
imagination
Intuition means....
feelings and instincts
reason and logic
beauty and power
money and power
The concept of making the world a better place
Radicalism
Idealism
Imagination
Individuality
Romantics celebrated...
society as a whole
the individual
During this time period, two major movements were taking place...what were they?
Women's Rights and Abolitionism
Right to Free Speech and Right to Representation
Teenagers' Rights and Abolitionism
Right to Bear Arms and Freedom of Religion
Which of the following writers were considered Dark Romantics?
William Cullen Bryant, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Melville, and Nathaniel Hawthorne
Transcendentalism is about
conformity and always doing things the same way
using logic and reasons
moving beyond common experience and understanding
Transcendentalists were...
optimistic
pessimistic
Transcendentalists believe that people are inherently..
bad
good
The Transcendentalists sought to regain a __________ that they thought was missing from current thought and philosophy.
logical mind
universal truth
spirituality
power
The setting at the beginning of "The Fall of the House of Usher" can best be described as...
clean, crisp, light, and welcoming
magnificent, large, bright, and inviting
dreary, gloomy, creepy, and dark
Roderick's condition is a "family evil." What are his symptoms?
Allergic to peanuts, pollen, and seafood
morbid acuteness of the senses
What song does Roderick sing?
"My Lovely Sister"
"The Basement of the Dead"
"The Haunted Palace"
"The Family Evil"
According to Thoreau, what kinds of lives do most people lead?
lives of quiet desperation
lives of conformity
lives of peace and happiness
What did Thoreau hope to avoid by going into the woods?
dying without ever seeing his ex-girlfriend
dying without ever having to go to a job again
dying without ever having to go to jail again
dying without realizing he ever lived
What is the main theme of Civil Disobedience?
To follow all the government's rules
The government is best that governs least
The government is best that governs the most
