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Romanticism and Realism

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Emphasis on using feelings and emotions over reason

a)

natural selection

b)

romanticism

c)

secularization

d)

organic evolution

2.

What literary movement that stressed ordinary characters and precise descriptions?

a)

realism

b)

secularization

c)

organic evolution

d)

romanticism

3.

What theory states that some organisms are more adaptable than others?

a)

natural selection

b)

realism

c)

romanticism

d)

secularization

4.

What means an, "indifference to religion?"

a)

natural selection

b)

romanticism

c)

secularization

d)

survival of the fittest

5.

The theory that life forms develop from simpler forms is known as:

a)

secularization

b)

organic evolution

c)

realism

d)

conservatism

6.

Through music, literature, and painting, the romantic artists attempted to

a)

make people fall in love

b)

express their love for women

c)

stir the emotions

d)

get people to reject modern inventions

7.

What do the writers Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allen Poe, and William Wordsworth all have in common?

a)

They were all men

b)

They were all English

c)

They were all French

d)

They were all Romantic writers

8.

Romantic painters aimed to

a)

mirror the artist's imagination

b)

re-create nature

c)

meet the highest standards of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts

d)

focus on the deplorable conditions of the urban poor

9.

Louis Pasteur proposed

a)

the concept of atomic weight

b)

the germ theory of disease

c)

the theory of electricity

d)

that Darwin be excommunicated

10.

The realist novels of Flaubert and Dickens

a)

portrayed the world by using the author's imaginations and emotions

b)

criticized aspects of 19th century life

c)

argued for "survival of the fittest"

d)

condemned Darwin as "godless"