American Romanticism
Pop Quiz#1
1. In general the ideas of the Romantics
were in direct opposition of
a. Puritanism
b. Rationalism
c. Existentialism
d. Modernism
2. Where do Romantics find inspiration
for their works?
a. Nature
b. Emotion
c. Religion
d. Both Nature and Emotion
3. In what century was Romanticism
prominent in America?
a. 17th
b. 18th
c. 19th
d. 20th
4. Which author is NOT a member of
the American Romanticism
Movement?
a. William Cullen Bryant
b. Robert Frost
c. Washington Irving
d. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
5. Who wrote “The Devil and Tom
Walker?”
a. Edgar Allan Poe
b. William Cullen Bryant
c. Washington Irving
d. Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. The American hero is all of the
following EXCEPT
a. Comfortable in the city
b. Young
c. Innocent
d. Close to Nature
7. Romantics believe that divine
inspiration comes from
a. Reason
b. Nature
c. Religion
d. Government
8. Who is considered the father of
gothic literature?
a. Washington Irving
b. Edgar Allan Poe
c. Herman Melville
d. Henry David Thoreau