Quiz for The Movement Multiple Choice: 1. The Romantic movement originated from: a) Germany b) England c) United States d) Italy e) Spain answer: a) 2. The ideals and tenets of Romanticism was in general the antithesis of which movement? a) Realism b) Neo-Classicism c) Medievalism d) Existentialism e) Puritanism answer: b) 3. The word "romantic" was first used to describe: a) a beautiful and rare flower b) a relationship between a man and a woman c) a relationship between mother and child d) medieval relationships in the mid- 1600s e) none of the above answer: d) 4. One of the following is not a part of the 5 I's of American Romanticism: a) Inspiration b) Innocence c) Imagination d) Intuition e) Indolence answer: e) 5. In England, what led to the demise of the Romantic movement? a) the Reform Bill b) The Industrial Revolution c) The Great Awakening d) The Great Exhibition of 1860 e) The American Civil War answer: b) 6. Which of the following was not a female Romantic? a) Emily Dickinson b) Elizabeth Barret Browning c) Emily Bront? d) Eleanor Dashwood e) Elizabeth Gaskell answer: d) 7. What is the underlying theme of all Romantics? a) ideas of the imagination is equal to or better than the ideas of science b) the portrayal of life through minute details and realistic images c) focus on the love and hate aspect of human nature d) emphasis on mental and physical growth through consumption e) none of the above answer: a) 7. Who heavily influenced Romantic dramatists? a) William Shakespeare b) Goethe c) Friedrich von Schiller d) Faust e) both a) and c) answer: a) 8. Where do Romantics find inspiration for their works? a) Nature b) Emotions c) Religion d) both a and b e) all of the above answer: e) 9. How can one describe Romantic art? a) It is subjective, emotionally intense, and dreamlike b) It is extremely detailed and complex techniques are employed c) It is eccentric and stimulates the senses d) it is meant to be enjoyed by the aristocracy e) all of the above answer: a) 10. Which of the following people heavily influenced the Romantic movement? a) Rousseau b) Napoleon c) Shakespeare d) both b and c e) all of the above Short Answer: 1. What does William Wordsworth imply in his poem "The Tables Turn?" Answer: People should look to nature rather than science and reason for instruction. 2. What was Napoleon Bonaparte an epitome of? Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte was the most influential exemplar of individualism in the 1800s. 3. Who was responsible for the Social Contract? What is the Social Contract? Answer: Jean Jacques Rousseau is responsible for the Social Contract. The Social Contract is the idea that progress in science is negative and it corrupts man. 4. In general, what aspect of Romanticism survived in the Victorian Age? Answer: Rebellion against tradition 5. What did the Romantic movement have influence over? Answer: The Romantic movement was a literary movement that touched literature, art, music, drama, and dance. Essay Questions or Interesting Thoughts for Discussion: 1. In your opinion, how has Romanticism has led to the way society is today? 2. Could the Romantic movement have occurred anywhere else in history? If so, what are the criteria or fundamental basis for which ideas of Romanticism can grow? 3. Evaluate how the social system of the era influenced Romantic works. 4. Evaluated how the tenets of Romanticism influenced culture in the 19th century. Optional Activities: 1. Organize a debate in your classroom or among peers split between Romantics and Classicists. Choose several students to speak as the major figures of both movements. 2. Have each classmate look for a Romantic quote and from that have the students create their own Romantic quote. Post all quotes up in the classroom. 3. Create a movie illustrating the ideas of Romanticism. Be creative! The Quiz for Literature Multiple Choice: 1. Which of the following is true of the female aspect of Romantic literature? a) Due to the social conditions of the time, the number of female writers were negligible b) Female Romantic writers proved that women could write equal to or better than male Romantic writers c) Female Romantics wrote poetry and novels under pseudonyms d) Female writers dominated the Romantic literary movement and the movement would not have occurred if it wasn't due to individuals like Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, and Ann Radcliffe. e) None of the above answer: b) 2. Which of the following is true of opium and the Romantic literary movement? a) It was not until Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater that other British poets and writers began experimenting with it b) Many writers who used opium believed it enhanced their imagination and therefore enhanced the quality of their work c) Edgar Allan Poe, John Keats, Charles Pierre Baudelaire, and members of the Club Des Haschischins all used Opium d) American Romantic authors did not use opium e) All of the Above answer: e) 3. All of the following are true about the Gothic Romance EXCEPT: a) They were interested in things such as mysteries, ghosts, Gothic castles, violence, vampires, terrors, and all other recurring motifs of Gothic literature b) They were interested in the supernatural c) The Gothic Romance is the same as Dark Romanticism d) Critics of the time claimed that Gothic Romances had no moral or philosophical value e) Gothic literature is tainted with symbolism answer: c) 4. What were the opinion of Romantics in regards to the Devil? a) Romantics liked the Devil as they expressed their problems, hidden tendencies, and ambitions through the Devil as a character in stories b) the Devil is rarely mentioned in Romantic literature and thus no strong opinion exists c) The devil was an important character of Romanticism to celebrate the impossible or absurd d) both a and c e) none of the above answer: d) 5. What did the American Dark Romantics analyze? a) the grotesque, the gloomy, the morbid, the fantastic b) the psyche of humans c) the supernatural world d) the wrongs of society such as injustice, murders, and child abuse e) a, b, and c answer: e) 6. What was unique about the Romantic fairy tale? a) It followed the traditions of a classic fairy tale b) It was unorthodox as it included complex problems open to interpretation and lacked human warmth c) It was written for mainly a children audience d) It was a genre in which young Romantic writers could express themselves e) both b and d answer: e) 7. What was the Sturm und Drang movement spurred by? a) Nationalism b) Rebellion against reason c) The potency and spontaneity of emotions d) The discomfort of society e) all of the above answer: e) 8. What did the preface of lyrical ballads declare? a) Napoleon was a heretic b) the Gothic Romance was actually an important and profound work of art c) to abandon one's pursuit of knowledge for the pursuit of nature d) the role of poetry in society must change e) Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an opium addict answer: d) 9. Which of the following did American Romantics support? a) abolitionism b) the Doctrine of Slavery c) Jacksonian Democracy d) both a and c e) none of the above, the American Romantics were a literary circle who did not involve themselves in political and social reforms answer: d) 10. Which of the following is NOT a quality of a Romantic Hero? a) he often comes in contact with people and saves them b) he values emotion over rational thought c) he attempts to become one with the natural world d) he is often youthful, innocent, and intuitive e) he is hopelessly uneasy with women answer: a) Short Answer: 1. What is the difference between the first and second wave of Romanticism? Answer: The second generation was more impassioned than the previous. There was more of an inclination towards the exotic and supernatural, which became part of reality to them. 2. What is the Transcendental idea of Oversoul? Answer: The Oversoul means each individual shares a soul with everything else in the world. 3. What were the themes behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein? Answer: The two fundamental ideas were the evils and dangers of science and the creation destroying the creator. 4. What were the main themes of the British Romantic poets? Answer: Vanity of human wishes, the instability of beauty, and the inevitability of death 5. How is the devil compared to the Romantic movement? Answer: The devil rebelled against God, just as the Romantics rebelled against the tyranny of reason. Essay Questions and Interesting Thoughts for Discussion 1. What was the difference between Weimar classicism as demonstrated by Friedrich von Schiller and Aesthetic Humanism as demonstrated by Friedrich von Schlegel? 2. Compare and contrast the French Romantic movement with the German Romantic movement. 3. Do you think it is ethical to use a mind altering drug for the sake of creativity such as Opium for Romantic writers? 4. The Romantic approach to landscape also had an impact in America, where poets and painters turned their eyes on a different and much wilder version of nature. How do American versions of the picturesque, the beautiful, and the sublime in landscape differ from British ones? 5. Gothic tales, both in English and in German, were a dominant force in the late-eighteenth-century literary marketplace and were read by all the major Romantic poets. At the same time, with the notable exception of Byron, none of the poets garnered anything like the novelists' readership. What common points of praise or blame appear? What inconsistencies? How do you see the poet's reading of the Gothic reflected in his poetry? Optional Activities: 1. Recreate the summer of 1816 at Lake Geneva. Read German ghost stories and then create ghost stories of your own. 2. As a class, write a Romantic Poetry Anthology. 3. Create a Transcendentalist colony such as Brook Farm or live like Thoreau for a day. Quiz for Music Multiple Choice: 1. What distinguishes Romantic music from other forms of music? a) Romantic composers included wide leaps of sixths, sevenths, and other augmented intervals b) Romantic composers freely broke away from traditional Classic rhythm and three types of cross-rhythms were used. c) Romantic composers often used the minor mode d) Romantic composers used counterpoint e) all of the above answer: e) 2. What did Romantic music stress the importance of? a) Individualism b) Conventionalism c) Injustice d) Form e) Love answer: a) 3. Which of the following ballet is the epitome of Romanticism? a) La Sylphide b) Giselle c) Coppélia d) Swan Lake e) Sleeping Beauty answer: b) 4. Why was the Romantic music movement later than other Romantic movements? a) The deaths of Weber, Beethoven, and Schubert allowed young composers to rise to fame b) The piano wasn't invented until 1919 c) Due to the poverty of Europe, many could not afford to enjoy music d) It was only till later that women could perform music, which had a significant influence on the music movement e) none of the above answer: a) 5. How can one differ Romantic work from others? a) It has choppy sequences and is significantly different from Classicism b) It is smooth and flows with constant meter c) It is a composition in which the artist gives himself up to the dominion of the imagination, considering all means as good d) It is a composition that is highly personal and emotional in which an artist contributes by adding his/her own voice in the piece e) Its titles often have to do with emotions such as love answer: c) 6. Which of the following associations of Romantic authors and Romantic music is true? a) Authors used music to stimulate thought and imagination b) Some authors felt music was the highest form of artistic expression c) Some authors felt that music was a synaesthesia where colors and tones combined to produce a dream-like effect d) all of the above e) none of the above as Romantic authors had nothing to do with Romantic music answer: d) 7. Which of the following statements is TRUE about Romantic Ballet? I. It was during that time that women started to dominate ballet and men functioned to support the ballerina II. the Romantic ballerina was "elusive, fascinating, mocking vision, half woman, half goddess, which haunted the imaginations of poets, painters, writers, and musicians" III. It was the movement that motivated later artists to create Swan Lake, the Nutcracker, and Sleeping Beauty a) I only b) II only c) III only d) II and III e) I, II, III 8. How did counterpoint change? a) It did not change b) It became more important c) It was very important to the Romantic composer d) It increased in length e) It developed into something totally different answer: c) 9. 10. Optional Activities: 1. Throw a Romantic ball in which only Romantic music is played and dress in the fashions of the nineteenth century. 2. Compile a CD of your favorite Romantic songs. 3. Try to imitate Strauss, Brahms, or any other Romantic musician and create your own composition. 4. If the opportunity arises, go see a Romantic Ballet or Opera and discuss the aspects of Romanticism it portrayed. Quiz on Art: Multiple Choice: 1. From 1800 to 1850, which three conflicting schools of art were present: a) Romantics, Realists, and Neoclassicists b) Romantics, Realists, and Classicists c) Romantics, Neoclassicists, and Classicists d) Romantics, Classicists, and Surrealists e) Romantics, Realists, and Surrealists answer: a) 2. What was unique about Romantic art? a) In paintings, the sky often filled 3/4 of the page and people were minuscule by comparison b) The life of common folks was explored versus prominent figures c) Everything appeared very detailed and real d) both a and b e) none of the above answer: d) 3. Which of the following is NOT a common theme of Romantic art? a) Nature b) Animals c) Family d) Heroism e) Emotion answer: b) 4. Which of the following is true on the impact of Romantic art on the future? a) It influenced impressionism, symbolism, expressionism, and surrealism b) The style of portraying people have never been the same since c) Since science was negatively portrayed in artwork, society was anti-science for half a century d) Since Romanticism as an art form was so rebellious, it encouraged individuals to speak out against authority e) none of the above answer: a) 5. What was different about techniques used by Romantic artists from other artists? a) Romantic artists saw the painting surface as just a canvas, unlike their predecessors, who saw the painting surface as a "pane of glass interposed between the artist and his subject" b) There was transparency and freedom in color in watercolors c) To expand horizons, Romantic artists experimented with new materials like wax, tempera, and oil d) both a and c e) all of the above answer: e) 6. What was special about Caspar David Friedrich? a) He painted exotic animals from his travels b) He introduced the theme of the single, open window c) He focused on the beauty of the human form d) He introduced still life to the Romantic movement e) none of the above answer: b) 7. Who is known as the first impressionist? a) John Constable b) Joseph Turner c) Delacroix d) William Blake e) Garicault answer: b) 8. The demise of Romantic art occurred with: a) The death of Delacroix in 1863 b) The rise of popularity of Degas c) The lack of nature due to the Industrial Revolution to inspire artists d) The socialist movement which inspired artists to focus on rough life and poverty e) none of the above answer: a) 9. What was the name of the School of Romanticism in the United States? a) The Catskill Artists b) The Liberty Academy c) The Hudson River School d) The Academy of Romantic Art e) The Columbia Academy of Art answer: c) 10. What three elements were used as a part of the aesthetic quality of art as the alleviation to the disillusionment caused by science and reason: a) Animals, magic, and still life b) Mid-evil poems, religious poems, and anti-Semitism c) Sky, trees, and mountains d) Education, Politics, and the Economy e) Sexuality, drugs, and magic answer: e) Optional Activities: 1. If the opportunity arises, go visit a museum and survey Romantic art. 2. Create your own piece of Romantic artwork. 3. As a class, create an art salon where you discuss and critique paintings of Romantic artists. Quiz on Drama: Multiple Choice: 1. If ____ had ceased to exist, there would be no genre of drama in which scholars term as Romantic: a) Shakespeare b) Shelley's The Cenci c) Goethe d) Drury Lane e) Napoleon Answer: a) 2. What was unique about Romantic comedies? a) The styles of humor used could be understood by and appealed to the common folk b) It was not humorous but rather it was a story focused on the irony of life c) It was not meant to entertain d) It was set out to reform the minds of the common folk in ways that the privileged could by means of vacation or travel e) both c and d answer: e) 3. How did Kemble contribute to Romantic drama? a) He created dark characters whose thoughts were exposed through narration b) He used landscape to reflect a character's mood and personality c) He included Romantic music in his plays as an addendum for emotion d) both a and b e) none of the above answer: b) 4. What is radical innocence? a) An extreme form of innocence that was termed the ideal human quality and something Romantics heavily valued b) An extreme form of evil in which terrible deeds are committed c) A bipolar disorder in which a person swings from evilness to a benign person d) Duality in which an innocent person is not blamed for the radical crime he/she commits under stress or abnormal conditions e) An appealing form of innocence found in women answer: d) 5. Which play was the epitome of Romantic drama? a) The Cenci b) The West Indian c) Pizarro d) Les Miserables e) Faust answer: a) Optional Activities: 1. Chose a Romantic Drama and as a class act it out. 2. Employ the techniques of Romantic dramatists and create your own Romantic drama. 3. If the opportunity arises, go see a Romantic play.