This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Transcendentalism > Transcendentalism – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What did Emerson add his voice to as a social cause? A) Individualism. B) Women's rights movement. C) Materialism. D) Consumerism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Women's rights movement. 2. Thoreau disagreed with A) The Mexican-American War. B) Paying taxes. C) The abolition of slavery. D) The right for women to vote. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Mexican-American War. 3. One of the purposes of the Transcendental movement was to: A) Create a national identity separate from England. B) Stop immigration from happening. C) Understand the lives of Americans. D) Figure out how to further the medical profession. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Create a national identity separate from England. 4. Not everyone uses his or her ..... to make decisions. Some people are rational; no emotions, just facts. A) Transcend. B) Nurture. C) Intuition. D) Peculiar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Intuition. 5. Who was the writer that self-published his greatest work and kept revising it and republishing (nine editions of the same book!)? A) Dickinson. B) Whitman. C) Thoreau. D) Emerson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Whitman. 6. Identify the type of clause:The soft cartilage that makes up sharks' skeletons dissolves over time. A) Nonrestrictive. B) Restrictive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Restrictive. 7. Which of the following definitions best represents the meaning of the word spirituality? A) Anything that pertains to a person's relationship with a nonmaterial life force or higher power. B) Adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard. C) An inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior. D) To make evident or certain by showing, displaying, or invoking. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anything that pertains to a person's relationship with a nonmaterial life force or higher power. 8. What part of speech is the word ostentatious? A) Adjective. B) Adverb. C) Verb. D) Noun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adjective. 9. Whitman is afraid of death A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 10. What is a naturalist? A) Literature that emphasizes a specific geographic setting and makes use of the speech and manners of the people that live in that region. B) Thinkers who rely heavily on the emerging scientific disciplines of psychology and sociology. C) Thinkers who juxtapose human illusions with the indifference of the universe. D) To place side by side; juxtapose unexpected combinations of colors, shapes, and ideas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thinkers who rely heavily on the emerging scientific disciplines of psychology and sociology. 11. Which of the following best reflects Henry David Thoreau's transcendentalists beliefs A) His decision to pay taxes as a sign of respect. B) His refusal to pay taxes because of his beliefs about the Mexican American War. C) His paintings of American birds. D) His affliation with president Polk. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His refusal to pay taxes because of his beliefs about the Mexican American War. 12. What decade(s) did the transcendentalism movement occur? A) 1650-1690. B) Too long ago to count. C) 1830-1850. D) 1960-1980. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1830-1850. 13. How did the African-American Methodist Episcopal church respond to slavery? A) It became a political voice against slavery for free blacks in the North. B) It decided to remain neutral on the issue of slavery. C) It supported the institution of slavery. D) It became a political voice in support of slavery for free blacks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It became a political voice against slavery for free blacks in the North. 14. In transcendentalism, man gets his truth from ..... A) Books. B) The Bible. C) Schools. D) Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nature. 15. Which does Emerson value more? A) Original thought. B) Traditional wisdom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Original thought. 16. Words that almost rhyme are called a near rhyme or a ..... rhyme. A) Slimy. B) Slim. C) Slack. D) Slant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Slant. 17. Feeling or expressing remorse for having done wrong A) Penitent. B) Requisition. C) Manifold. D) Furnish. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Penitent. 18. "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men ..... that is genius" What trademark of transcendentalism does this quote represent? A) Intuition over Reason. B) Simplified Life. C) Self-Reliance. D) Non-conformity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Self-Reliance. 19. What did Thoreau do to help end slavery? A) He delivered lectures. B) He wrote a book. C) He worked on the underground railroad. D) He went to jail. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He worked on the underground railroad. 20. Transcendentalists believed in the power of ..... (RI.10.10) A) God. B) Technology. C) The individual. D) Government. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The individual. 21. What does civil disobedience mean? A) To be rowdy, loud, and obnoxious when protesting. B) To be quiet and timid while protesting. C) To be happy and celebratory while protesting. D) To be peaceful, yet resilient while protesting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To be peaceful, yet resilient while protesting. 22. Another term for 'religious' is ..... A) Pious. B) Loyal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pious. 23. Which word means a ghost or something widely feared as possibly unpleasant or dangerous A) Spacely. B) Specter. C) Scepter. D) Inspect. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Specter. 24. What was the main focus of Transcendentalism? A) Spiritual growth. B) Political power. C) Physical beauty. D) Material wealth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spiritual growth. 25. What is intuition? A) A feeling of peace. B) The ability to know and understand through emotions. C) The ability to understand through reason. D) A feeling of well-being. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The ability to know and understand through emotions. 26. How do Transcendentalists believe people should live life? A) In the most complex way . B) In the simplest way . C) In the most daring way . D) In the most cautious way . Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In the simplest way . 27. What is one allusion found in "The Raven" ? A) Aiden. B) "Quoth the Raven, Nevermore". C) "Nodded nearly napping". D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aiden. 28. Which author ..... that we studied ..... uses aphorisms? A) Thoreau. B) Emerson. C) Miller. D) Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emerson. 29. Backcountry snowboarding is the only way to go because ....., I never have to stand in line, nor do I have to pay for a lift ticket, nor do I have to dodge people on the slopes, unless there's a bunny or a bear. A) Derisively. B) Conviction. C) Indubitably. D) Incessantly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Indubitably. 30. Complete the following quote: "To be great is to be ..... " (From Emerson's Self-Reliance) A) Misunderstood. B) Intelligent. C) A genius. D) Saved. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Misunderstood. 31. What did Ralph Waldo Emerson believe about the human spirit? A) It is influenced by faith and country. B) It is controlled by reason. C) It is reflected in physical nature. D) It is irrelevant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is reflected in physical nature. 32. Which of the following would take place in a creepy setting? A) Native American. B) Puritan. C) American Gothic. D) Enlightenment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) American Gothic. 33. What action did Thoreau take to protest the Mexican war? A) He wrote a book. B) He worked on the underground railroad. C) He delivered lectures. D) He went to jail. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He went to jail. 34. "Self-Reliance, " elaborates on his belief in the importance of the ..... A) Individual. B) Traveler. C) Passionate. D) Disobedient. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Individual. 35. True or False:the transcendentalist tent "free thought" rejected religion A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 36. One of the main differences between Rationalism and Transcendentalism is: A) Rationalists believe God created the world and runs it with perfection. B) Rationalists value logic and reason rather than intuition and feelings. C) Rationalists believe in human perfectibility while Transcendentalists do not. D) Rationalists saw signs and symbols in human events. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rationalists value logic and reason rather than intuition and feelings. 37. Which of the following definitions best represents the meaning of the word transcend? A) To make evident or certain by showing, displaying, or invoking. B) A system of beliefs and values. C) To rise above or beyond, exceed. D) An effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To rise above or beyond, exceed. 38. Anything used to persuade is called a ..... A) Metaphor. B) Allusion. C) Literary device. D) Rhetorical device. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhetorical device. 39. "I can't believe they'd try and buy me a car, or that they think I'd actually let them pay for my law school if I was going to go ..... " This idea is best explained as A) Self-Reliance. B) Simplified Life. C) Non-Conformity. D) The importance of Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Non-Conformity. 40. Which characteristic of Transcendentalism means: "the feeling or belief that one can rely on someone/something, certainty in one's abilities" ? A) Nonconformity. B) Self-Reliance. C) Importance of Nature. D) Confidence. E) Free Thought. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Confidence. 41. What did Thoreau believe about unjust laws? A) They should be ignored. B) They should be changed through reason. C) They are irrelevant. D) They should be obeyed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They should be ignored. 42. In Romanticism, nature is all of the following except ..... A) A place to hide. B) A way to understand God. C) Source for the knowledge of the things that came before. D) A religious movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A religious movement. 43. Use the information from the list to answer the question. * People have knowledge about the world that goes beyond the five senses. * People should trust themselves to be their own authority. * Americans should stop looking to Europe for inspiration.* Nature and people are inherently good. A) Puritans. B) Shakers. C) Abolitionists. D) Transcendentalists. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Transcendentalists. 44. Which characteristic of Transcendentalism means: "depending on one's own power and resources instead of those of others" ? A) Self-Reliance. B) Free Thought. C) Confidence. D) Importance of Nature. E) Nonconformity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Self-Reliance. 45. Transcendentalism was first expressed in ..... A) Walden by Henry David Thoreau. B) The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. C) Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson. D) Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson. 46. "Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string." A) Thanatopsis. B) Nature. C) Self Reliance. D) Walden. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Self Reliance. 47. Studied anatomy & behavior of birds A) John Deere. B) Alexander Graham Bell. C) James John Audubon. D) Frederick Douglass. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) James John Audubon. 48. Transcendentalists and Romantics both believe in the power of the imagination. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 49. What was the name of the transcendental commune that is in New England in the 1800's? A) Happy Land. B) Candy Land. C) Woodstock. D) Brook Farm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Brook Farm. 50. Who is one author from the Romantic Period in America? A) Henry David Thoreau. B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. C) Washington Irving. D) Walt Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Washington Irving. 51. True or False?Romanticism and Transcendentalism both contain characteristics that include:nature, imagination, and intuition. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 52. Define 'free verse' A) Poetry with no regular patterns of rhyme or meter. B) Poetry with regular patterns of rhyme or meter. C) Poetry written with a precise meter that does not rhyme. D) Poetry with three-line stanzas with a 5/7/5 syllable count. E) Poetry that normally tells a story about a hero or an adventure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry with no regular patterns of rhyme or meter. 53. Based on "Nature", how does one reach solitude, or true peace? A) By taking a hike in the woods every morning to free your mind. B) By breaking free from society and embracing nature in order to learn about oneself. C) Writing at home about how one would picture nature by using one's imagination. D) By making a weekly effort to watch nature documentaries and observe the documentaries' details. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) By breaking free from society and embracing nature in order to learn about oneself. 54. True or False:Henry David Thoreau was against slavery. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 55. Which of the following definitions best represents the meaning of the word conscience? A) To make evident or certain by showing, displaying, or invoking. B) An effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning. C) Anything that pertains to a person's relationship with a nonmaterial life force or higher power. D) An inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior. 56. Who wrote the essay 'Civil Disobedience'? A) Emily Dickinson. B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. C) Walt Whitman. D) Henry David Thoreau. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Henry David Thoreau. 57. What is the tone in Nature? A) Angry/aggressive. B) Inspiring/peaceful. C) Persuasive/factual. D) Lyrical/magical. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inspiring/peaceful. 58. Transcendentalism started during the 1800's. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 59. Which of the following is NOT one of the themes of Transcendentalism? A) Importance of Nature. B) Non-conformity. C) Westward Expansion. D) Individualism. E) Simplicity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Westward Expansion. 60. To pervade means (especially ..... ) spread through and be perceived in every part of A) Of a smell. B) In tast. C) In the mind. D) For thoughts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Of a smell. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesTranscendentalism Quiz 1Transcendentalism Quiz 3Transcendentalism Quiz 4Transcendentalism Quiz 5Transcendentalism Quiz 6Transcendentalism Quiz 7Transcendentalism Quiz 8Transcendentalism Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books