Question 1

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Accepted Answer

30-I,31-f,32-a,33-j,34-g,35-h,36-d,37-c,38-e,39-b

Question 2

What term did Hector Berlioz give to the leading theme or melody in his symphonies?

Accepted Answer

A) Scherzo 
B) Fortissimo 
C) Idée fixe 
D) Étude 
A) Scherzo 
B) Fortissimo 
C) Idée fixe 
D) Étude C

Question 3

In "Tintern Abbey," why does Wordsworth believe he looks at the world differently than he did five years previously?

Accepted Answer

A) The losses he endured has made him more sensitive 
B) He now sees the connection between all things 
C) His memory becomes sharper as he matures 
D) He has a closer relationship with his sister 
A) The losses he endured has made him more sensitive 
B) He now sees the connection between all things 
C) His memory becomes sharper as he matures 
D) He has a closer relationship with his sister B

Question 4

List,explain,and provide specific examples for three developments in music during the Romantic age.

Accepted Answer

During the Romantic age, music saw sever

Question 5

Why does the vase in "Ode on a Grecian Urn" fascinate John Keats?

Accepted Answer

A) The superior craftsmanship of its artist 
B) The classic lines of its shape 
C) The complete focus on nature 
D) The eternal beauty of its art 
A) The superior craftsmanship of its artist 
B) The classic lines of its shape 
C) The complete focus on nature 
D) The eternal beauty of its art

Question 6

Why was the natural world Romantic poetry's primary subject?

Accepted Answer

A) Its absence of complexity and pretension 
B) Its availability to everyone no matter what social class 
C) Its ability to stimulate emotions and imagination 
D) Its 
A) Its absence of complexity and pretension 
B) Its availability to everyone no matter what social class 
C) Its ability to stimulate emotions and imagination 
D) Its

Question 7

Citing at least two examples,show how and why the later English Romantics (Byron,Shelley,and Mary Shelley)utilized the Promethean idea in their works.

Accepted Answer

The later English Romantics, including B

Question 8

Why were the Romantics so attracted to the sublime-the prospect of anything beyond the human mind to understand?

Accepted Answer

A) It offered a challenge 
B) It stimulated the imagination 
C) It is limitless and unbounded 
D) It frightened most of the people 
A) It offered a challenge 
B) It stimulated the imagination 
C) It is limitless and unbounded 
D) It frightened most of the people

Question 9

Define Emerson's Transcendentalist beliefs,and show how his friend Thoreau lived what Emerson preached.

Accepted Answer

Ralph Waldo Emerson was a leading figure

Question 10

Why did Beethoven eventually view his deafness and its isolation as positive?

Accepted Answer

A) It gave him more time to compose 
B) It distinguished him from his peers 
C) It was necessary for creativity 
D) It allowed him to ignore criticism 
A) It gave him more time to compose 
B) It distinguished him from his peers 
C) It was necessary for creativity 
D) It allowed him to ignore criticism

Question 11

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein,why does the creature embark on a quest for revenge against Dr.Frankenstein?

Accepted Answer

A) For creating him from dead body parts 
B) For abandoning him to fend for himself 
C) For not giving him a soul 
D) For leaving him in the Arctic 
A) For creating him from dead body parts 
B) For abandoning him to fend for himself 
C) For not giving him a soul 
D) For leaving him in the Arctic

Question 12

List and describe three beliefs of the Romantic artists.

Accepted Answer

1. Emphasis on Emotion and Individualism

Question 13

Why did Henry David Thoreau begin his experiment of living at Walden Pond?

Accepted Answer

A) To escape imprisonment 
B) To live simply 
C) To write a book 
D) To preserve nature 
A) To escape imprisonment 
B) To live simply 
C) To write a book 
D) To preserve nature

Question 14

Which Wordsworth poem is considered to be the fullest statement of the Romantic imagination?

Accepted Answer

A) "The Daffodils" 
B) "The World is Too Much with Us" 
C) "The Rainbow" 
D) "Tintern Abbey" 
A) "The Daffodils" 
B) "The World is Too Much with Us" 
C) "The Rainbow" 
D) "Tintern Abbey"

Question 15

Who was Wordsworth's co-writer for Lyrical Ballads?

Accepted Answer

A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
B) Dorothy Wordsworth 
C) Ralph Waldo Emerson 
D) John Keats 
A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
B) Dorothy Wordsworth 
C) Ralph Waldo Emerson 
D) John Keats

Question 16

Compare Goethe's Faust's reasons for forming a pact with the devil to Shelley's Dr.Frankenstein's reasons for creating the creature.Then discuss the two character's outcomes.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Compare Goethe's Faust's reasons for forming a...

Question 17

In Goethe's Faust,why does the title character sell his soul to the devil?

Accepted Answer

A) Disappointed with love 
B) Lust for vast riches 
C) Profound boredom 
D) To benefit mankind 
A) Disappointed with love 
B) Lust for vast riches 
C) Profound boredom 
D) To benefit mankind

Question 18

Explain the sublime's appeal to the Romantics,exemplifying your response with at least two works of visual art or literature.

Accepted Answer

The appeal of the sublime to the Romanti

Question 19

Why did John Constable include a cathedral in so many of his paintings?

Accepted Answer

A) To remind viewers of the Church's importance 
B) To symbolize God's permanence in nature 
C) To celebrate his profession as a minister 
D) To make his landscapes more likely to sell 
A) To remind viewers of the Church's importance 
B) To symbolize God's permanence in nature 
C) To celebrate his profession as a minister 
D) To make his landscapes more likely to sell

Question 20

What view of the world did the Romantics value?

Accepted Answer

A) Empirical observation 
B) Divinely revealed truth 
C) Objective reality 
D) Subjective experience 
A) Empirical observation 
B) Divinely revealed truth 
C) Objective reality 
D) Subjective experience

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What term did Hector Berlioz give to the leading theme or melody in his symphonies?

In "Tintern Abbey," why does Wordsworth believe he looks at the world differently than he did five years previously?

List,explain,and provide specific examples for three developments in music during the Romantic age.

Why does the vase in "Ode on a Grecian Urn" fascinate John Keats?

Why was the natural world Romantic poetry's primary subject?

Citing at least two examples,show how and why the later English Romantics (Byron,Shelley,and Mary Shelley)utilized the Promethean idea in their works.

Why were the Romantics so attracted to the sublime-the prospect of anything beyond the human mind to understand?

Define Emerson's Transcendentalist beliefs,and show how his friend Thoreau lived what Emerson preached.

Why did Beethoven eventually view his deafness and its isolation as positive?

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein,why does the creature embark on a quest for revenge against Dr.Frankenstein?

List and describe three beliefs of the Romantic artists.

Why did Henry David Thoreau begin his experiment of living at Walden Pond?

Which Wordsworth poem is considered to be the fullest statement of the Romantic imagination?

Who was Wordsworth's co-writer for Lyrical Ballads?

Compare Goethe's Faust's reasons for forming a pact with the devil to Shelley's Dr.Frankenstein's reasons for creating the creature.Then discuss the two character's outcomes.

In Goethe's Faust,why does the title character sell his soul to the devil?

Explain the sublime's appeal to the Romantics,exemplifying your response with at least two works of visual art or literature.

Why did John Constable include a cathedral in so many of his paintings?

What view of the world did the Romantics value?

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Exam 26: The Romantic World View: the Self in Nature and the Nature of Self

Matching

What term did Hector Berlioz give to the leading theme or melody in his symphonies?

In "Tintern Abbey," why does Wordsworth believe he looks at the world differently than he did five years previously?

List,explain,and provide specific examples for three developments in music during the Romantic age.

Why does the vase in "Ode on a Grecian Urn" fascinate John Keats?

Why was the natural world Romantic poetry's primary subject?

Citing at least two examples,show how and why the later English Romantics (Byron,Shelley,and Mary Shelley)utilized the Promethean idea in their works.

Why were the Romantics so attracted to the sublime-the prospect of anything beyond the human mind to understand?

Define Emerson's Transcendentalist beliefs,and show how his friend Thoreau lived what Emerson preached.

Why did Beethoven eventually view his deafness and its isolation as positive?

In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein,why does the creature embark on a quest for revenge against Dr.Frankenstein?

List and describe three beliefs of the Romantic artists.

Why did Henry David Thoreau begin his experiment of living at Walden Pond?

Which Wordsworth poem is considered to be the fullest statement of the Romantic imagination?

Who was Wordsworth's co-writer for Lyrical Ballads?

Compare Goethe's Faust's reasons for forming a pact with the devil to Shelley's Dr.Frankenstein's reasons for creating the creature.Then discuss the two character's outcomes.

In Goethe's Faust,why does the title character sell his soul to the devil?

Explain the sublime's appeal to the Romantics,exemplifying your response with at least two works of visual art or literature.

Why did John Constable include a cathedral in so many of his paintings?

What view of the world did the Romantics value?

The Baroque in Italy: The Church and Its Appeal

The Secular Baroque in the North: The Art of Observation

The Baroque Court: Absolute Power and Royal Patronage

The Rise of the Enlightenment in England: The Claims of Reason

The Rococo and the Enlightenment on the Continent: Privilege and Reason

The Rights of Man: Revolution and the Neoclassical Style

Industry and the Working Class: a New Realism

Global Confrontation and Civil War: Challenges to Cultural Identity

In Pursuit of Modernity: Paris in the 1850s and 1860s

The Promise of Renewal: Hope and Possibility in Late Nineteenth-Century Europe

The Course of Empire: Expansion and Conflict in America

The Fin De Siècle: Toward the Modern

The Era of Invention: Paris and the Modern World

The Great War and Its Impact: a Lost Generation and a New Imagination

New York skyscraper Culture and the Jazz Age: Making It New

The Age of Anxiety: Fascism and Depression holocaust and Bomb

After the War: Existential Doubt, artistic Triumph, and the Culture of Consumption

Multiplicity and Diversity: Cultures of Liberation and Identity in the 1960s and 1970s

Without Boundaries: Multiple Meanings in a Postmodern World

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