This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Transcendentalism > Transcendentalism Literature – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 6 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A famous female writer during the Transcendentalist movement was A) Margaret Atwood. B) Margaret Simpson. C) Emily Dickenson. D) Melissa Elliott. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Emily Dickenson. 2. According to Emerson, why are geniuses like Jesus or Newton misunderstood? A) Because they committed heinous crimes. B) Because their ideas were similar in nature. C) Because Society rejects them for their uniqueness. D) Because they were just like everyone else. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Because Society rejects them for their uniqueness. 3. What value does the "News" have in the world of Walden? A) Important to learn about other people. B) Somewhat important-to know of the world. C) Not important-a waste of time. D) Very important-to find out information. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not important-a waste of time. 4. In Longfellow's poem, "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls" ..... "The little waves with their soft, white hands" is an example of what literary device? A) Personification. B) Idiom. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 5. The movie, "Castaway" is an example of the transcendental tenet A) Noncomfority. B) Free Thought. C) Self-Reliance. D) Confidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Self-Reliance. 6. From "Self-Reliance":Whoso would be a man must also be what? A) A a genius. B) A peaceful person. C) A nonconformist. D) An intelligent person. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A nonconformist. 7. "O Captain! My Captain!"One extended metaphor in the poem is the comparison of A) A captain to a ship. B) A captain to a victory. C) A journey to a ship's deck. D) A ship to the country. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A ship to the country. 8. This is a distinct form of a language as it is spoken in one geographical area or by a particular social or ethnic group. A) Diction. B) Speech. C) Bilingual. D) Dialect. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dialect. 9. Which of the following preferred intuition over reason? A) Native American. B) Puritan. C) Transcendentalism. D) American Gothic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transcendentalism. 10. What does this quote from Emerson mean? A) People should spend more time with friends than alone. B) People need to balance spending time alone and with others. C) Even though it's impractical people should be alone. D) It's important to be practical. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) People need to balance spending time alone and with others. 11. Who was the founder of an all-female academy in Hartford, Connecticut? A) Dorothea Dix. B) Catharine Beecher. C) Harriet Beecher Stowe. D) Margaret Fuller. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Catharine Beecher. 12. Emerson observes that nature always "wears the colors of the spirit." What is meant by this? A) Nature dresses up for Halloween. B) Nature never dresses itself. C) Nature reflects the emotion of man. D) Nature is empty and vain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nature reflects the emotion of man. 13. Who wrote the Transcendentalist manifesto, Nature? A) Margaret Fuller. B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. C) Henry David Thoreau. D) Walt Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 14. According to Stephen King ("Danse Macabre" ), what are we (as an audience) most afraid of? A) Growing old. B) Violence. C) The supernatural. D) The unknown. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The unknown. 15. All of the following were social reforms during this time period EXCEPT? A) Women's rights. B) Education. C) Children labor laws. D) Abolition of slavery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Children labor laws. 16. Who put gloves on the chickens? A) Waldo. B) Henry. C) Edward. D) Lydian. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Henry. 17. The transcendental tenet of "oversoul" believes that A) Voice of truth is through nature. B) God wants people to go against the church and laws of society. C) Voice of truth is through intuition. D) God lives in everyone and we can communicate with him without a church. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) God lives in everyone and we can communicate with him without a church. 18. In Longfellow's poem, "The Tide Rises the Tide Falls" what might the traveler symbolize? A) The Poet. B) The permanence of time. C) The permanence of man. D) An Everyman figure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An Everyman figure. 19. According to Emerson, people who want to find good in the world should rely upon A) Themselves. B) Wise men of the past. C) Education. D) Religion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Themselves. 20. How many lines are in this poem? A) 2. B) 4. C) 1. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3. 21. What is the central idea in Civil Disobedience? A) People must overthrow the government. B) The fewer who run the government the better. C) Citizens should be willing to act on their opinions. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The fewer who run the government the better. 22. How many rooms were there for the party in "Masque Of the Red Death" ? A) Zero. B) Ten. C) Four. D) Seven. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Seven. 23. According to Emerson, what will make a man gay and relieved? A) When he learns what other people's purpose in life is. B) When he follows the crowd for the first time. C) When he puts his heart into his work. D) When he finally gives up on things. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) When he puts his heart into his work. 24. Which author is not a Transcendentalist thinker A) Margaret Fuller. B) Robin Williams. C) Ralph Waldo Emerson. D) Henry David Thoreau. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Robin Williams. 25. Emerson writes that this is suicide ..... A) Ignorance. B) Flattery. C) Imitation. D) Envy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imitation. 26. Who said "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist" ? A) Thoreau. B) Emerson. C) Whitman. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emerson. 27. All of the following were Transcendentalist authors except A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. B) Walt Whitman. C) Henry David Thoreau. D) John Steinbeck. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John Steinbeck. 28. In Walden, Thoreau is advocating for ..... A) Less individuality. B) More social freedom. C) Attention to detail. D) Simple, structured living. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simple, structured living. 29. What image accompanies this quote by Emerson, "All mean egotism vanishes ..... " A) A ship sailing on the choppy seas of civilized life. B) A great transparent eyeball. C) The god of loons. D) Solitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A great transparent eyeball. 30. In Civil Disobedience how does he support his view that government is abused by powerful individuals? A) He analyzes the the structure of the government. B) He alludes to several corrupt Massachusetts politicians. C) He cites examples of unpopular war. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He cites examples of unpopular war. 31. What was the opposition of Anti-Transcendentalism? A) Enlightenment. B) Transcendentalism. C) Modernism. D) Reason. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Transcendentalism. 32. Who is considered the "father" of Transcendentalism? (He is the author of "Nature" .) A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. B) Henry David Thoreau. C) Robin Williams. D) Margaret Fuller. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 33. Transcendentalism ended because of the persistence of A) War. B) Suffrage. C) Hunting. D) Slavery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Slavery. 34. Emily Dickinson's poetry is known for her use of ..... A) Colons and question marks. B) Commas and periods. C) Dashes and capitalization. D) Hyphens and semicolons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dashes and capitalization. 35. Why did Henry David Thoreau drop out of Harvard? A) Take care of his brother. B) Had to serve jail time. C) Health issues. D) Wife died. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Health issues. 36. What would Thoreau say about this picture? A) Simplification is overrated. B) He loves cars. C) He loves congestion. D) Simplify, simplify!. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simplify, simplify!. 37. Another one of the 3 stressed ideas when you are taught to look for the good A) Confidence. B) Optimism. C) Importance of Nature. D) Self-Reliance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Optimism. 38. Define:To Strive to Go Above the Norm A) Panthesist. B) Religion. C) Transcendentalism. D) Spirituality. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transcendentalism. 39. Which of the following is a characteristic of both Romanticism and Dark Romanticism? A) Nature can be scary and deadly. B) Humans are essentially turbulent and madness is a potential state of any mind. C) Humans are essentially good. D) Nature is mysterious and amazing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nature is mysterious and amazing. 40. Transcendentalists believe that modern education is corrupting ..... A) Careers. B) Individualism. C) Knowledge. D) Society. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Individualism. 41. Who was Thoreau's mentor? A) Bronson Alcott. B) Henry David. C) Walt Whitman. D) Ralph Waldo Emerson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 42. What machine did Henry invent? A) To make mechanical pencils. B) Improve pencils. C) Pencil maker. D) Sharpener. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Improve pencils. 43. Which of the following is not an idea of transcendentalism? A) Reason. B) Self-reliance. C) Optimism. D) Freedom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reason. 44. What were experimental communities that tried to create a perfect society? A) Utopian communities. B) Common-school movement. C) Tenement communities. D) Temperance movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Utopian communities. 45. Why is Henry David Thoreau in jail? A) He flogged his students. B) He burned down a barn. C) He didn't pay his taxes. D) He stole fruit from a farmer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He didn't pay his taxes. 46. Margaret Fuller was all of the following except: A) Femenist. B) Women's Rights advocate. C) Transcendentalist. D) Romanticist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Romanticist. 47. What is the tone of the following section? Wow! With a top speed of one hundred fifty miles per hour, that car can almost fly! A) Excited. B) Annoyed. C) Calm. D) Scary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Excited. 48. Wrote "Nature" and created the idea of Transcendentalism. A) Bronson Alcott. B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. C) Henry David Thoreau. D) Margret Fuller. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 49. What strong emotion does Dickinson convey when talking about the Emperor at her door? A) Cold and estranged. B) Warm and welcoming. C) Joyful and glee. D) Harmonious and connected. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cold and estranged. 50. Many Transcendentalists were known for their opposition to A) Human rights. B) Freedom of speech. C) Slavery. D) Minimum wage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Slavery. 51. Transcendentalism was a philosophy within what larger literary movement? A) American Realism. B) The Enlightenment. C) American Romanticism. D) Puritanism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) American Romanticism. 52. Wrote "Civil Disobedience" A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. B) Henry David Thoreau. C) Bronson Alcott. D) Ghandi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Henry David Thoreau. 53. Who said this:"You got it dude" A) Michelle Tanner. B) Margaret Fuller. C) Ralph Waldo Emerson. D) Henry David Thoreau. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Michelle Tanner. 54. When did Dark Romanticism take place? A) 1800s. B) 1900s. C) 1700s. D) 2000s. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1800s. 55. "O Captain! My Captain!":Why are the poeple "all exulting? " A) The Captian was a tyrant who they all wanted dead. B) The people are celebrating the long life of the Captain. C) The people are joyous that the war is over; the confederate army has surrendered. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The people are joyous that the war is over; the confederate army has surrendered. 56. Which of the following is a main trait of the Romantic Period? A) Poetry is the highest expression of imagination. B) Feeling, emotion, and intuition are valued over reason. C) Nature's path leads to spiritual enlightenment. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 57. The following statement is an example of what literary device? "That government is best that governs the least." A) Oxymoron. B) Anapest. C) Personification. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paradox. 58. What device does Whitman use when he puts similar ideas together with "and" that gives a Biblical cadence? A) Word Pairing. B) Juxtaposition. C) Cataloguing. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Word Pairing. 59. The following is an example of .....: "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison" (Civil Disobedience, 374). A) Irony. B) Paradox. C) Romanticism. D) Aphorism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paradox. 60. Transcendentalists saw Nature as A) Sacred and Powerful. B) Beautiful. C) Symbolic. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesTranscendentalism Literature Quiz 1Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 2Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 3Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 4Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 5Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 7Transcendentalism Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books