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

Question 1

Why in Lyrical Ballads did Wordsworth chose to focus on people from "humble and rustic life"?

A)They were more honest
B)They were less educated
C)They were closer to nature
D)They were more like him

Answer 1

C

Question 2

What were the Romantic artists reacting against?

A)Neoclassicism's order,control,and balance
B)Guidance from the educated elite
C)The brutality of revolution
D)The movement away from God

Answer 2

A

Question 3

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

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

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Why did the Romantics revere Prometheus?

A)For being a suffering but noble champion of human freedom
B)For being the Greek god of wisdom and creativity
C)For refusing to obey the laws of the Titans
D)For his ability to be restored after suffering cruel treatment

Question 5

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

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

Question 6

Why did the night appeal to the Romantics more than the day?

A)Less knowable
B)More knowable
C)Less moral
D)More moral

Question 7

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

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

Question 8

Why did Romantic artists such as Thomas Cole see America as having so much potential?

A)Its native American population
B)Its freedom of worship
C)Its pristine rivers and lakes
D)Its vast tracts of wilderness

Question 9

Which historic figure was considered the personification of the Romantic hero?

A)John Keats
B)Julius Caesar
C)Napoleon
D)Louis XVI

Question 10

In Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," what does the Mariner's killing of the albatross represent?

A)Coleridge overcoming opium addiction
B)An attack on nature
C)Salvation for his shipmates
D)Christ's crucifixion

Question 11

According to Ralph Waldo Emerson,what was transcendentalism's fundamental principle?

A)The spirit's oneness with nature
B)Obeying nature's laws
C)Following one's conscience
D)The ability to live in nature

Question 12

Who originally coined the term "Romanticism"?

A)William Wordsworth
B)Friedrich von Schlegel
C)Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D)Immanuel Kant

Question 13

What view of the world did the Romantics value?

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

Question 14

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

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 15

In A Defense of Poetry,what did Percy Shelley claim was the role of poets?

A)To entertain with words
B)To document human ideas
C)To verbalize human emotions
D)To change the world

Question 16

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

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 17

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

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

Question 18

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

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

Question 19

Why in Constable's paintings are human figures usually so small?

A)To provide a focal point for the scene
B)To emphasize nature's immensity and indifference
C)To stand out from the atmospheric perspective
D)To show man's place in God's view

Question 20

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

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 21

List three characteristics of the Romantic hero,showing how Napoleon fit this character type.

Question 22

Identify and explain three techniques Goya uses in The Third of May,1808,to convey his message about the horrors of war.

Question 23

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

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

Question 24

With what great innovation did Beethoven end his Ninth Symphony?

A)A long,sustained crescendo
B)A vocal chorus
C)A four-movement sonata
D)Addition of a piccolo to the woodwinds

Question 25

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

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 26

Why did Francisco Goya paint The Third of May,1808,with such graphic reality?

A)To turn the Spanish against Napoleon
B)To show the horrors of war
C)To illustrate Romanticism's dark side
D)To instigate riots against Joseph Bonaparte

Question 27

Identify and explain the main theme of Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn."

Question 28

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

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

Question 29

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

Question 30

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.

Question 31

In Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther,why does the hero commit suicide?

A)For being ostracized from the city society
B)For making a pact with the devil
C)For killing his pregnant mistress
D)For falling in love with a married woman

Question 32

Describe the setting of Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey," explaining how that setting exemplifies the Romantic ideas.

Question 33

Compare the human figures in Constable's The Upper Falls of the Reichenbach to Friedrich's The Wanderer above the Mists,focusing on placement,size,and detail.

Question 34

How did Herman Melville's view of nature differ from that of other Romantics?

A)It was a challenge,not an inspiration
B)It distracted man from important tasks
C)It was to be tamed,not preserved
D)It was to be exploited for personal gain

Question 35

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

Question 36

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

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 37

Matching

Question 38

List and describe three beliefs of the Romantic artists.

Question 39

As discussed in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,what might Théodore Géricault have aimed to capture in his series of portraits of the insane?

A)The creative spark of madness
B)The downtrodden and forgotten
C)The shape of an insane person's head
D)The Romantic anti-hero

Question 40

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.

Question 41

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