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AP Success - AP European History: Romanticism in 'White Nights'

"I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can't help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year. I feel I know you so well that I couldn't have known you better if we'd been friends for twenty years. You won't fail me, will you? Only two minutes, and you've made me happy forever. Yes, happy. Who knows, perhaps you've reconciled me with myself, resolved all my doubts.

When I woke up it seemed to me that some snatch of a tune I had known for a long time, I had heard somewhere before but had forgotten, a melody of great sweetness, was coming back to me now. It seemed to me that it had been trying to emerge from my soul all my life, and only now-"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, An Excerpt from White Nights, 1848

Question 1

Multiple choice
The excerpt from Fyodor Dostoevsky's 'White Nights' is an example of which 19th-century intellectual movement?

  • Realism

  • Existentialism

  • Enlightenment

  • Romanticism

Question 2

Multiple choice
Which of the following themes is most prominently reflected in the given excerpt from 'White Nights'?

  • The celebration of rational thought and empirical evidence

  • The critique of traditional religious beliefs

  • The importance of emotion and individual experience

  • The focus on social class and economic conditions

Question 3

Multiple choice
The narrator's expression of intense personal feeling and imagination in the excerpt is most indicative of a reaction against which of the following?

  • The industrialization of society

  • The rationalism of the Enlightenment

  • The conservatism of the Restoration period

  • The secularism of the French Revolution

Question 4

Multiple choice
The dream-like state and the focus on inner emotions in the excerpt can be seen as a precursor to which later 19th-century development in literature and philosophy?

  • Positivism

  • Naturalism

  • Utilitarianism

  • Symbolism and early Modernism

Question 5

Multiple choice
Considering the historical context of 1848, the year when 'White Nights' was published, which of the following events is contemporaneous with the themes of personal liberation and emotional expression found in the text?

  • The Congress of Vienna

  • The European Revolutions of 1848

  • The beginning of the Crimean War

  • The publication of the Communist Manifesto

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