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Romanticism

written by: iskra87
 
The Romantic movement arose in the 18th century as a reaction against the political, social and scientific changes during that time.

Question 1:


Ideals of what period did the Romantics try to revive?
Age of Enlightenment
Age of Reason
Medieval period
Antiquity

Question 2:


What is the origin of the word "romance"?
German
English
Latin
Old French

Question 3:


What human ability was not primary according to the Romantics?
Intuition
Feeling
Imagination
Deductive reason

Question 4:


The prominent philosopher Johann Georg Hamann and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe were proponents of what Romantic movement?
Düsseldorf School
Hudson River School
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Sturm und Drang

Question 5:


What English poet, illustrator, painter and translator wrote these words: "The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank."?
Thomas Woolner
Frederic George Stephens
William Holman Hunt
Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Question 6:


Who composed Symphony No. 8 in B minor, known as the Unfinished Symphony?
Franz Liszt
Niccolò Paganini
Robert Schumann
Franz Schubert

Question 7:


What English poet wrote the poem "Visions of the Daughters of Albion"?
William Wordsworth
William Blake
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Question 8:


What event does the painting "Liberty Leading the People" by the French Romantic painter, Eugène Delacroix, commemorate?
The Kościuszko Uprising in 1794
The July Revolution of 1830
The Greek War of Independence (1821–1829)
The Egyptian Revolution of 1952

Question 9:


Which of the following works was a novel by the Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer Thomas Moore, a representative of the Romantic movement?
"The Fudge Family in Paris"
"The Minstrel Boy"
"The Epicurean"
"The Last Rose of Summer "

Question 10:


Post-romanticism was a movement that emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Which of these works is a post-Romantic novel?
Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary"
Guy de Maupassant's "Bel Ami"
Franz Kafka's "The Trial "
Émile Zola's "Le Docteur Pascal"

 


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