This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Transcendentalism > Transcendentalism Literature – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who wrote one of the best-known pieces of Romantic literature in The Scarlet Letter? A) Edgar Allan Poe. B) Walt Whitman. C) Emily Dickinson. D) Nathaniel Hawthorne. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nathaniel Hawthorne. 2. What does Henry teach Ellen? A) How to fish. B) How to understand nature. C) How to use her mind to transcend the limits around her. D) How to teach others about transcendentalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) How to use her mind to transcend the limits around her. 3. What did Ralph Waldo Emerson believe? A) That Henry David Thoreau was intelligent. B) That the human mind is more powerful than any machine. C) That humans need to make more machines. D) That the animals are smarter than humans. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) That the human mind is more powerful than any machine. 4. This tenet is about trusting yourself and not backing down from what you believe in. You have to believe in yourself. A) Self-Reliance. B) Confidence. C) Importance of Nature. D) Free Thought. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Confidence. 5. Which of the following describes Dickinson's relationship with religion? A) Devout Catholic. B) Protestant, but questioned religion. C) Non-practicing Jew. D) Raised Baptist, but became Wiccan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Protestant, but questioned religion. 6. How did Henry first learn about Transcendentalism? A) Carlyle taught him. B) He created it. C) He took class on it at Harvard. D) A lecture by Emerson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A lecture by Emerson. 7. Bringing up joyful shared memories in a speech is an appeal to ..... A) Ethos (trust, ethics). B) Pathos (emotion, feeling). C) Logos (logic, evidence). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos (emotion, feeling). 8. When Whitman used ....., he did not have a pattern of end rhyme, regular meter, or regular stanza length in his poems. A) Slant rhyme. B) Personification. C) Free verse. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free verse. 9. Which transcendental writer is this? A) Abraham Lincoln. B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. C) Henry David Thoreau. D) Jerry Springer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Henry David Thoreau. 10. How long did Thoreau live at Walden Pond? A) 2 years. B) 2 years, 1 month, 1 day. C) 2 years, 2 months, 2 days. D) 3 years, 3 months, 3 days. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2 years, 2 months, 2 days. 11. The 19th Century was a generation of people struggling to define ..... and ..... in a new way. A) Religion; spirituality. B) Change; literature. C) Work; power. D) Industry; success. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Religion; spirituality. 12. "O Captain! My Captain!" :The speaker says that the Captain's death"is some dream " because he A) Realizes that the Captain has been sleeping. B) Has only imagined that the Captain is dead. C) Wishes the Captain's death was not real. D) Has had many dreams about the Captain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wishes the Captain's death was not real. 13. The first Transcendentalists were A) Fuller, Emerson, Thoreau. B) Whitman, Thoreau, Shakespeare. C) Thoreau, Emerson, Whitman. D) Emerson, Fuller, Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fuller, Emerson, Thoreau. 14. During what years was Transcendentalism most prevalent? A) 1900-1950. B) 1650-1700. C) 1800-1860. D) 1700-1750. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1800-1860. 15. What does Carpe Diem mean? A) Grab Life. B) You Only Live Once. C) Bona Fide. D) Seize the day. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Seize the day. 16. Transcendentalism is NOT A) A religion. B) A literary movement. C) A philosophy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A religion. 17. What is an important theme in "Song of Myself? " A) Darkness and Destruction. B) Unity and Democracy. C) Power and Authority. D) Money and Wealth Accumulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unity and Democracy. 18. VocabularyDefinition:lasting forever A) Perpetual. B) Tranquil. C) Conviction. D) Aversion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Perpetual. 19. Which of the following authors was NOT a dark romantic writer? A) Edgar Allan Poe. B) Washington Irving. C) William Shakespeare. D) Herman Melville. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Shakespeare. 20. In "Civil Disobedience" what does Thoreau ask for instead of no government all at once? A) A better government. B) An honest politician. C) Increased and better commerce. D) An end to unjust taxation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A better government. 21. Which of the following is America's preeminent Gothic author? A) Poe. B) Emerson. C) Longfellow. D) Thoreou. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poe. 22. Inspired Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ghandi A) Alcott. B) Thoreau. C) Fuller. D) Emerson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thoreau. 23. Which of the following did Transcendentalists NOT like/appreciate? A) Childlike Innocence. B) Nature. C) Formal Education. D) Intuition & Imagination. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Formal Education. 24. ..... wrote Walden. A) Bronson Alcott. B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. C) Walt Whitman. D) Henry David Thoreau. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Henry David Thoreau. 25. Which of the following was NOT a Transcendentalist? A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. B) Bronson Alcott. C) Henry David Thoreau. D) Jonathon Edwards. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jonathon Edwards. 26. Who was not a prominent Anti-Transcendentalist author during this time period? A) T.S Elliot. B) Nathaniel Hawthorne. C) Edgar Allan Poe. D) Herman Melville. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) T.S Elliot. 27. Which one of these is not a tenet of transcendentalism? A) Free thought. B) Uniformity. C) Self reliance. D) Non-conformity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Uniformity. 28. What was happening during this time period? A) Invention of Airplanes. B) The Louisiana Purchase. C) Buying Alaska. D) French and Indian War. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Louisiana Purchase. 29. Why did Thoreau live close to Walden Pond for two years? A) To write a book. B) To escape the pressures of society. C) To re-evaluate his way of living. D) To reconnect with nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To re-evaluate his way of living. 30. "Civil Disobedience" is written by A) Emerson. B) Dickinson. C) Thoreau. D) Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thoreau. 31. VocabularyDefinition:strong belief A) Absolve. B) Chaos. C) Perpetual. D) Conviction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conviction. 32. Who was a supporter of women's rights movement who helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention; co-founder of Woman Suffrage Association? A) Margaret Fuller. B) Elizabeth Cady Stanton. C) Catharine Beecher. D) Harriet Tubman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 33. A famous collection of essays by Emerson was titled ..... A) Self-Reliance. B) Self-Taught. C) Self-Awareness. D) Self-Esteem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Self-Reliance. 34. Wrote "The American Scholar" and "Self-Reliance" A) Benjamin Franklin. B) Henry David Thoreau. C) Ralph Waldo Emerson. D) Margaret Fuller. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 35. What does Emerson call "the hobgoblin of little minds" ? That is, what makes unintelligent people comfortable remaining unintelligent? A) Conspiracy. B) Cowardice. C) Society. D) Consistency. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Consistency. 36. This is one of the 5 main ideas of Transcendentalism. It is when you do thinks for yourself. A) Self-Reliance. B) Free Thought. C) Importance of Nature. D) Confidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Self-Reliance. 37. What is a prominent theme in Dickinson's poem "Soul Selects Her Own Society? " A) Connection to Nature. B) Anti-Authority. C) Free Thinking. D) Conformity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anti-Authority. 38. Words related to "transcendental" include: A) Dark, horrific, tragic. B) Physical, tangible, concrete. C) Abstract, metaphysical, supernatural. D) Transpose, ascendant, dental. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abstract, metaphysical, supernatural. 39. A common theme in Dark Romanticism is ..... A) Trust no one. B) Life is beautiful. C) Evil overtakes good. D) Love conquers all. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Evil overtakes good. 40. Which of the following is NOT a common theme in Transcendentalism? A) Nature. B) Ego. C) Free-thought. D) Nonconformity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ego. 41. Which one is not a definition of Transcendentalism? A) Living a simpler life makes you happy. B) Value each day of your life. C) Believing in miracles and inspiration. D) To climb beyond. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Value each day of your life. 42. VocabularyDefinition:a strong dislike A) Nonconformist. B) Conviction. C) Aversion. D) Expedient. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aversion. 43. A Transcendentalist might suggest that:By contemplating ....., the individual can ..... the world and discover their ..... A) Nature, transcend, divine truth. B) Transcendence, forget, intuition. C) God, escape, true nature. D) True freedom, embrace, destiny. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nature, transcend, divine truth. 44. Another one of the 5 is the idea that you should be able to think for yourself and challenge beliefs. A) Free Thought. B) Importance of Nature. C) Self-Reliance. D) Confidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free Thought. 45. Throeau felt that government A) Should be destroyed. B) Is a tool for the army. C) Is a tool to be used for the people. D) Can be abused. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Can be abused. 46. Which individual spent one night in jail for refusing to pay his taxes? A) Thoreau. B) Steve Harvey. C) Emerson. D) Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thoreau. 47. He believed in the importance of individualism. A) Emerson. B) Thoreau. C) Whitman. D) Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emerson. 48. Which of these was an ex-slave who spoke for abolition and women's rights? A) Emily Dickinson. B) Margaret Fuller. C) Sojourner Truth. D) Dorthea Dix. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sojourner Truth. 49. In a medical or health setting, which public figure would most appeal to an audience's sense of ethos (trust)? A) A writer. B) A teacher. C) A doctor. D) A politician. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A doctor. 50. Dark Romantic literature often deals with ..... A) Fear and terror. B) Love and devotion. C) Grief and loss. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 51. Characters in Dark Romantic literature are often ..... A) Surrounded by friends. B) Alone. C) Successful. D) Happy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alone. 52. What is the purpose of a short story? A) To inform the reader. B) To persuade the reader. C) To entertain the reader. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To entertain the reader. 53. When Thoreau mentions "less is more" in Act II, what is he urging against? A) Societal code. B) Education. C) Government. D) Materialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Materialism. 54. Which word pairs best describe the mood, or atmosphere, of "The Cask of Amontillado" ? A) Humorous and silly. B) Realistic and ordinary. C) Sincere and thought provoking. D) Grim and suspenseful. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Grim and suspenseful. 55. What was Thoreau's main purpose in writing Walden? A) To persuade. B) To entertain. C) To complain. D) To describe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To describe. 56. How long does a person with the Red Death have to live? A) 1 hour. B) 30 minutes. C) 1 hour and 30 minutes. D) 45 minutes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 30 minutes. 57. This author, started Transcendentalism, by inviting various authors into his private study as they discussed these transcendent ideals. A) Ralph Emerson. B) Emily Dickinson. C) Henry Thoreau. D) Walt Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ralph Emerson. 58. What was Thoreau arrested for? A) Stealing land. B) Slander. C) Tax Evasion. D) Assault. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tax Evasion. 59. Why did Henry David Thoreau choose to spend two years in a cabin? A) To contemplate himself and the world. B) Because he was trying to escape his social anxieties. C) To rely completely on nature. D) To earn money. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To contemplate himself and the world. 60. What is the philosophy of transcendentalism? A) Connect with nature. B) Spend more time in urban society. C) Meditate until you are one with God. D) Write long journal entries. 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