This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Transcendentalism > Transcendentalism Literature – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 7 (55 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How long did Thoreau spend at Walden Pond? A) Six weeks. B) Seven years. C) One year. D) A little over two years. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A little over two years. 2. What's the major theme in the essay, "Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson? A) Spirituality. B) Civilism. C) Materialism. D) Simplicity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spirituality. 3. In "Self Reliance, " Emerson writes that we should ..... ourselves above all us. A) Criticize. B) Believe in. C) Trust. D) Work on. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trust. 4. What is one way that Transcendentalists tried to "transcend" or clear their minds to focus on the human experience? A) Transcendentalist Therapy. B) Transcendentalist Meditation. C) Clear forests. D) Build their own cabins the woods. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Transcendentalist Meditation. 5. "Self-Reliance" ContentIn "Self-Reliance, " Emerson writes that society "loves not realities and creators, but names and customs." Which of these adjectives best reflects Emerson's attitude in that statement? A) Encouraging. B) Disapproving. C) Forgiving. D) Accepting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Disapproving. 6. Isn't a central belief of Transcendentalism? A) People must go to school to learn. B) God is in nature and all people. C) People should be themselves. D) Life is about being curious and learning from feeling. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) People must go to school to learn. 7. Which of the following was NOT part of this unit? A) Romanticism. B) Realism. C) Transcendentalism. D) Gothic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Realism. 8. Which movement or group is best described as being overly religious? A) Colonialists. B) Puritans. C) Native Americans. D) Enlightenment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Puritans. 9. How did the raven get into the house? A) He flew down the chimney. B) He stepped in from the window. C) He was already in the house. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He stepped in from the window. 10. Wrote "Self-Reliance" and created the idea of Transcendentalism. A) Margret Fuller. B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. C) Henry David Thoreau. D) Bronson Alcott. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 11. What was the abolition movement? A) Campaign for religious freedom. B) Campaign to fight for slavery. C) Campaign to end alcohol consumption. D) Campaign to end slavery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Campaign to end slavery. 12. Complete the following quote: "To be great is to be ..... " A) Saved. B) A genius. C) Intelligent. D) Misunderstood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Misunderstood. 13. This main idea is about connecting to the world around you and using that to understand yourself. A) Importance of Nature. B) Free Thought. C) Nonconformity. D) Confidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Importance of Nature. 14. In "I Hear America Singing, " Whitman employs ..... to express the variety of people that make up America.Eg:"The carpenter singing ..... The mason singing ..... The boatman singing ..... " (397) A) Paradox. B) Paralellism. C) Repetition. D) Cataloging. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cataloging. 15. Which is NOT one of Ralph Waldo Emerson's noted writings? A) Nature. B) Fate. C) Self-Reliance. D) The British Scholar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The British Scholar. 16. Define:Visually descriptive or figurative language A) Metaphor. B) Diction. C) Imagery. D) Aphorism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 17. What is society compared to in "Self-Reliance" ? A) Joint-stock company. B) Conspiracy. C) Nothing. D) Chaos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Joint-stock company. 18. What is the purpose of a science article about grasshoppers? A) To inform the reader. B) To entertain the reader. C) To persuade the reader. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To inform the reader. 19. Who was the minister that spoke widely about the evils of alcohol? A) Dorothea Dix. B) Lyman Beecher. C) Horace Mann. D) Frederick Douglass. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lyman Beecher. 20. According to "Nature, " where should a person go to be alone? A) Outside. B) City streets. C) His chamber. D) A church. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Outside. 21. Which is most like Thoreau? A) He has little respect for women. B) Prefers owning ideas and images to possessing property. C) He hates animals. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prefers owning ideas and images to possessing property. 22. What punctuation feature is unique to Emily Dickinson's poem "The Soul Selects Her Own Society? " A) Period. B) Comma. C) Exclamation mark. D) Dash mark. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dash mark. 23. Transcendentalism is part of what literary era? A) Calvinism. B) Minimalism. C) Romanticism. D) The Age of Reason. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Romanticism. 24. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem? Twinkle, twinkle little starhow I wonder what you are.Up above the world so highlike a diamond in the sky. A) ABBA. B) ABAC. C) AABB. D) ABCA. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) AABB. 25. Citing a study done by a university is an appeal to ..... A) Pathos (emotion, feeling). B) Logos (logic, evidence). C) Ethos (trust, ethics). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos (logic, evidence). 26. While Transcendentalists focus on nature and man's capacity for good, Gothic works often feature ..... A) Technology and man's capacity for improvement. B) The supernatural and man's capacity for evil. C) Art and man's capacity for creativity. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The supernatural and man's capacity for evil. 27. What was the political party founded by nativists in 1849? A) /Republican Party. B) Democratic Party. C) Whig Party. D) Know-Nothing Party. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Know-Nothing Party. 28. What is the main theme of Civil Disobedience? A) To follow all the government's rules. B) The government is best that governs least. C) The government is best that governs the most. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The government is best that governs least. 29. Transcendentalists believed that all things (humans, God and nature) were connected. This term is also known as the ..... A) Religion. B) Oversoul. C) God. D) Overlord. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oversoul. 30. "Fast fashion" means there are ..... fashion "seasons" per year. A) 36. B) 52. C) 4. D) 12. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 52. 31. In a political speech, which public figure would most appeal to an audience's sense of ethos (trust)? A) An artist. B) An athlete. C) A chef. D) A president. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A president. 32. In the essay "Self-Reliance" Emerson expresses that many great people have ..... A) Gained money. B) Been misunderstood. C) Traveled a lot. D) Written music. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Been misunderstood. 33. A famous female Transcendentalist is A) Margaret Simpson. B) Margaret Fuller. C) Margaret Atwood. D) Melissa Elliott. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Margaret Fuller. 34. This type of irony is a contrast between what is expected to happen and what actually does happen. A) Dramatic Irony. B) Situational Irony. C) Verbal Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Situational Irony. 35. Transcendentalism prompted a shift in thought, emphasizing the following: A) Reason and Logic. B) Reality / Science. C) Intuition and nature. D) Society over the individual. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Intuition and nature. 36. Laying out the simple facts of an argument is an appeal to ..... A) Ethos (trust, ethics). B) Pathos (emotion, feeling). C) Logos (evidence, logic). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logos (evidence, logic). 37. What is the purpose of the repetition of the tide rising and falling in the poem? A) To make sure the reader knows the setting. B) To include a literary device,. C) To make the poem sound more professional. D) To imitate the repetition of the waves. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To imitate the repetition of the waves. 38. Fill in the blank:..... is greater than Society. A) Instinct. B) Nature. C) Individualism. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Individualism. 39. Critical attributes of transcendentalism? A) Hope, Love, and Freedom. B) Focus, social equality, patriotism, love of nature. C) Faith, harmony, and serenity. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Focus, social equality, patriotism, love of nature. 40. What must Emerson lose in order to become the transparent eyeball? A) His love for the city. B) His clothes. C) His egotism. D) His worldly possessions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His egotism. 41. What does Henry teach his cellmate? A) How to spell his name. B) How to huckleberry. C) How to be a transcendentalist. D) How to read. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) How to spell his name. 42. What is the movement in which people believed they could transcend or rise above material things? A) Impressionism. B) Transcendentalism. C) Romanticism. D) Modernism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Transcendentalism. 43. Emerson's essay uses this device in Nature when he writes "nature is both a comic and a mourning piece." A) Anaphora. B) Personification. C) Juxtaposition (sharp contrast). D) Word pairing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Juxtaposition (sharp contrast). 44. Who wrote Walden? A) Poe. B) Thoreau. C) Steinbeck. D) Equiano. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thoreau. 45. What does the loon symbolize in "Walden" ? A) The loon symbolizes nature. B) The loon symbolizes Thoreau's fears. C) The loon symbolizes madness. D) The loon symbolizes Thoreau's pursuit of the truth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The loon symbolizes Thoreau's pursuit of the truth. 46. "O Captain! My Captain!":To emphasize a sorrowful tone, Whitman contrasts the narrator's grief with the A) Sorrow of the crowd. B) Joy of the crowd. C) Beauty of the flowers. D) Bright sunny day. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Joy of the crowd. 47. Referring to sad or tragic events in a piece of writing would be an appeal to ..... A) Ethos (ethics, trust). B) Pathos (feeling, emotion). C) Logos (evidence, logic). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos (feeling, emotion). 48. According to Stephen King's analysis of Gothic writing in "Danse Macabre" (464), what must a Gothic writer understand in order to be effective in creating a successful piece? A) Poe's work. B) The Dance of Death. C) The psychology of terror. D) Doors. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The psychology of terror. 49. What do Dr. Heidegger's guests have in common? A) They are all old and have experienced misfortune. B) They are all friends from high school. C) They are all sick. D) They are all researchers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They are all old and have experienced misfortune. 50. Name the text that this quote originates from: "I felt if I alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax." A) "Civil Disobedience". B) "Self-Reliance". C) "Walden". D) "Nature". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Civil Disobedience". 51. VocabularyDefinition:a means to an end A) Alacrity. B) Expedient. C) Tranquil. D) Decorum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Expedient. 52. In which sentence will you list the 3 ways the author supports their main idea? A) Second (2). B) Fourth (4). C) Third (3). D) First (1). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Second (2). 53. In which essay does Thoreau propose that people should examine whether they should obey unjust laws? A) Nature. B) Civil Disobedience. C) Self-Reliance. D) Walden. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Civil Disobedience. 54. One major premise of Transcendentalism is: A) Social obligation is necessary for a just society. B) It is important to worship nature as God. C) In order to reach self-realization, one must reconcile the ego and societal duties. D) Egotism is the most valued of characteristics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In order to reach self-realization, one must reconcile the ego and societal duties. 55. All of the following are examples of aphorisms EXCEPT: A) Envy is ignorance. B) Imitation is suicide. C) What I should do is all that concerns me. D) Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. 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