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American Romanticism Introduction

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What years are associated with American Romanticism?

a)

1600-1680

b)

1720-1800

c)

1800-1855/60

d)

1920-1980

2.

Romantics value ____________ over reason

a)

Ambition

b)

Education

c)

Intuition

d)

Society

3.

Romantics believed that nature = corruption

a)

true

b)

false

4.

Romantics believed that youthful _________ is better than educated sophistication

a)

beauty

b)

innocence

c)

ignorance

d)

energy

5.

What did the Romantics value more?

a)

City Life

b)

Life in Nature

6.

Two sub-genres of Romanticism are

a)

guilt and sin

b)

good and evil

c)

dark romanticism and transcendentalism

d)

sin and psychology

7.

Where did American Romantics believe that you could find God?

a)

Nature

b)

Church

c)

Inside yourself

d)

In books

8.

American Romanticism refers to romantic love.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

What is the literary period that followed the Age of Reason in America?

a)

Romanticism

b)

Transcendentalism

c)

Gothic

d)

Realism

10.

What is the characteristic of American Romanticism that prefers unspoiled nature?

a)

Faith in inner experiences

b)

Value of feeling and intuition

c)

Championing individual freedom

d)

Shunning artificiality of civilization

11.

What are the main ideas of Romanticism?

a)

Imagination, nature, innocence, and individualism

b)

Nature, people, religion, and heaven

c)

Synthesis, evaluation, and connection

d)

Conforming to the idea's of society

12.

What was happening in America during the Romantic Time Period?

a)

Civil War

b)

WW1

c)

WW2

d)

Industrialization

13.

The Romantic period is called such because all the literature in this time period is

a)

based on love triangles and characters' relationships with each other

b)

based on idealism or a sense of how things should be

c)

based on candlelight dinners and kind words

14.

The negative aspects of society, particularly man-made institutions, led to a desire to ...

a)

move to the city

b)

travel abroad

c)

move to the country

15.

The belief that feelings and intuition are superior to logic and reasons relates to...

a)

romantic sensibility

b)

journey

c)

escape

16.

Romantics sought truth and tranquility in...

a)

God

b)

nature

c)

family

17.

An American hero is defined as...

a)

selfish and lazy

b)

good-hearted but flawed

c)

irresponsible

18.

To a romantic, power belongs to...

a)

nature

b)

man

c)

reason

19.

Romantics viewed the _____ as a place of moral ambiguity, corruption, and even death.

a)

city

b)

country

c)

west

20.

Austin's Romantic Period soulmate is...

a)

Bjork

b)

Becky Chambers

c)

Walt Whitman

d)

Anis Mojgani