Romantic Related Arts Quiz

Question 1

Series of political essays creating US constitution

Answer 1

Federalist Papers

Question 2

Elected emperor of France 10 years after beheading of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

Answer 2

Napoleon Bonaparte

Question 3

Freed slave who led revolution in Hispaniola

Answer 3

Francois Toussaint-l’Ouvertire

Question 4

Creole Leader of liberation in South America

Answer 4

Simon Bolivar

Question 5

Romantic critic who remarked on Manchester industrial revolution

Answer 5

Thomas Carlyle

Question 6

German philosophical idealist whose ideas dominated European philosophy

Answer 6

G.W.F. Hegel

Question 7

Philosopher who argued history was propelled by class struggles and materialistic gain

Answer 7

Karl Marx

Question 8

English poet who led a life of sexual freedom and political idealism

Famous poem Don Juan

Answer 8

Lord Byron

Question 9

French artist inspired by Byron

The Death of Sardanapalus

Answer 9

Eugene Delacroix

Question 10

Ballerina who premiered dancing on point in La Sylphide

Answer 10

Marie Taglioni

Question 11

Sympathetic to those inslaved to industrial cities, this man used to poetry to, “create a system or be enslaved by another mans”

Answer 11

William Blake

Question 12

Author of the first female manifesto A vindication of the rights of women

Answer 12

Mary Wollstonecraft

Question 13

Greatest artist of romantic protest was Spanish painter -

The disasters of war
Executions of the third of may

Answer 13

Francisco Goya

Question 14

Poets of English romanticism

Answer 14

John Keats - contemplating a nightingales song

Percy Bysshe Shelley - listening time west wind

William Wordsworth - the prelude or growth of a poets mind

Question 15

American Romantic nature authors

Answer 15

Ralph Waldo Emerson - self reliance

Henry David Thoreau - Walden

Question 16

Greatest nature painter, compatriot to Wordsworth

Answer 16

John Constable

The White Horse

Question 17

Burgeoning middle class in industrial cities

Answer 17

Victorians

Question 18

Created the crystal palace, a monumental greenhouse

Answer 18

Joseph Paxton

Question 19

A moral philosophy that evaluated all actions against a single standard of judgement - the greatest pleasure for the greatest number

Answer 19

Utilitarianism

Jeremy Bentham

Question 20

Developed ideas of evolution and natural selection

Answer 20

Charles Darwin

Question 21

A group of young punters that rejected academic painting and perferred honest feeling over artificiality and classicism

Answer 21

Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood

Question 22

Painted Ophelia depicting woodland flowers and the models silver-inlaid gown

Answer 22

John Everett Milliais

Question 23

Defined the realism style of truthful and objective representation

Answer 23

Gustave Courbet

Burial at Ornans

Question 24

Controversial painter that stepped out of Courbet’s shadow

Answer 24

Edouard Manet

Luncheon on the grass

Question 25

Most outspoken author against injustices of industrialism. Novels portrayed evils of industrialism

Answer 25

Charles Dickens David Copperfield Bleak House

Question 26

French novelist that was the opposite of dickens

Answer 26

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary The sentimental education