American Romanticism

All of the following are authors of American Romanticism EXCEPT

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Ralph Waldo Emmerson

• Nathaniel Hawthorne

• William Shakespeare

Romantics value intuition over reason.

• True

• False

A Romantic would find beauty in the American frontier.

• True

• False

All of the following are traits of the American Romantic Hero EXCEPT

• Youthful

• Innocent

• Obedient

• Reflective

James Fenimore Cooper created the American Romantic hero named

• Indiana Jones

• Father Hooper

• Natty Bumpo

• Daniel Day-Lewis

The Fireside Poets got their name by

• Performing their poems around campfires.

• Having their poems read around the fireplace.

• Depicting fire and brimstone imagery in their poems.

• Dropping rhymes that were straight fire.

Transcendentalists believe that true reality is spiritual.

• True

• False

Which of the following best describes the romantic view of nature?

• Nature is full of deception and the unknown. Nature is the source of evil.

• Nature is beautiful, mysterious, and symbolic. God can be see in nature.

• Science and reason are higher than nature and should be given more attention and respect.
  

• Nature reveals all of the negative qualities of mankind, so we must avoid it and embrace forward progress.

The Romantics believed that people could improve their world-view by …

• focusing on the problems and working for a solution

• focusing on meditation and yoga

• focusing on beauty, emotion and imagination as a means of escape

• focusing on getting the right people elected to make change

What did the Romantics prefer?

• countryside

• industrial towns