This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Transcendentalism > Transcendentalism – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Quiz 6 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. All of the following are values of Transcendentalism as reflected in "Self Reliance" except A) Do not rely on traditions. B) Do not love your neighbor. C) Do not be predictable. D) Trust in yourself. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Do not love your neighbor. 2. "The day returns, but nevermore/Returns the traveller to the shore, " A) Nature. B) The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls. C) Old Ironsides. D) Walden. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls. 3. What is the second basic premise of Transcendentalism? A) All knowledge comes from others. B) All knowledge comes from books. C) All knowledge begins with self-knowledge. D) All knowledge comes from nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All knowledge begins with self-knowledge. 4. Which of the following statements is the best example of Transcendentalism A) Accept the teaching of the church and share them. B) Be your best through self-reliance and peace with nature. C) Seek out the beliefs of the majority and follow them. D) Have faith in the government and let it lead you. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Be your best through self-reliance and peace with nature. 5. What is your mood if you suddenly lost your job, your pet, or your wallet? A) Melancholy. B) Speculating. C) Ostentatious. D) Propitious. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Melancholy. 6. This Transcendentalist volunteered as a nurse during the Civil War and is known for publishing a controversial work, "Leaves of Grass." A) Margaret Fuller. B) Emily Dickinson. C) Henry David Thoreau. D) Walt Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Walt Whitman. 7. What are Calvin and Hobbes doing? A) Questioning Norms. B) Contemplating tax evasion. C) Communing with the elephants. D) Embracing the Wilderness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Embracing the Wilderness. 8. Which work is Ralph Waldo Emerson most famous for? A) Nature. B) The Dial . C) Walden. D) Woman in the 19th Century. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nature. 9. "Our life is frittered away by detail." A) Old Ironsides. B) Walden. C) Nature. D) Thanatopsis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Walden. 10. What bigger movement is transcendentalism a part of? A) Modernist. B) Realism. C) Naturalism. D) Romanticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Romanticism. 11. Who does Thoreau not allude to in Self-Reliance? A) Galileo. B) Jesus. C) Issac Newton. D) Stephen Hawking. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stephen Hawking. 12. In the entire poem "O Me! O Life!", what Transcendental principle is most clearly represented? A) Individuality. B) Optimism. C) Positive Influence of Nature. D) Civil Disobedience. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Individuality. 13. Transcendentalist writer A) Susan B Anthony. B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. C) John James Audubon. D) Lucretia Mott. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 14. What period inspired the Transcendentalism movement? A) Abolitionist. B) Enlightenment. C) Romanticism. D) Puritan. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Enlightenment. 15. The falling tide in "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls" is a metaphor for A) Birth. B) Life. C) Humanity. D) Death. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Death. 16. What does Emerson believe about conformity? A) DON'T DO IT!. B) DO IT!. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) DON'T DO IT!. 17. True or False:Transcendentalists believed that inspiration was limited by social conformity. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 18. What is the definition of Transcendentalism? (RI.10.10) A) The ability to transcend, or go beyond, ordinary experiences. B) The ability to manifest your path in life through meditation. C) The ability to conserve nature through vegetarianism/veganism. D) The ability to reflect and become a productive member of society. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The ability to transcend, or go beyond, ordinary experiences. 19. Complete the quote-" If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different ..... " A) Lover. B) Pipper. C) Singer. D) Drummer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Drummer. 20. What is the central theme of Nature? A) Nature is seen as evil and should be avoided. B) Nature is seen as dangerous and leads people to sin. C) Nature is seen as a place for emotional, physical, and spiritual connection. D) Nature only purpose is to provide food, water, & shelter for people. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nature is seen as a place for emotional, physical, and spiritual connection. 21. This person only wore white and lived in isolation A) Henry David Thoreau. B) Emily Dickinson. C) Ol' Ralph. D) Walt Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emily Dickinson. 22. Emily Dickinson's family was ..... A) Poor. B) Mysterious. C) Rich and famous. D) Noble. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rich and famous. 23. Why is Thoreau's "civil disobedience" important to American Culture & American history? A) It inspired future reforms and reformers like civil rights and Martin Luther King Jr. B) It helped inspire Manifest Destiny. C) It directly led to the abolition of slavery and the 13th Amendment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It inspired future reforms and reformers like civil rights and Martin Luther King Jr. 24. What is the most important lesson to be learned from Walden? A) Live life harshly. B) Live close to nature. C) Live life as you think others want you to. D) Live life as you choose. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Live life as you choose. 25. Which of the following definitions best represents the meaning of the word conformity? A) An effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning. B) Adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard. C) The right to vote in political elections. 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: B) Adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard. 26. What is Whitman referencing at in the last line: "and you may contribute a verse." A) A metaphor about how life is a poem. B) Everyone should write poetry. C) The idea of democracy and equality. D) The idea of communism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The idea of democracy and equality. 27. Which of the following is the most worthy of respect in Transcendentalism? (RI.10.10) A) The law. B) God's laws. C) The will of the majority. D) The individual conscience. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The individual conscience. 28. Which of the following ideals is NOT important in Transcendentalism? A) Nature. B) Self-reliance. C) Selfishness. D) Non-conformity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Selfishness. 29. Another word for 'splendid' is ..... A) Bright. B) Fearsome. C) Intimidating. D) Sublime. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sublime. 30. Which author practiced law for 10 years before moving to New York and becoming the editor-in-chief for the Evening Post? A) Nathaniel Hawthorne. B) William Cullen Bryant. C) Henry David Thoreau. D) Ralph Waldo Emerson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) William Cullen Bryant. 31. These are all trademarks of transcendentalism but A) Self-Reliance. B) Meditation. C) Non-conformity. D) The Importance of Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meditation. 32. Does the following sentence contain a restrictive or nonrestrictive clause? The computer that is on the front table needs a new battery. A) Nonrestrictive. B) Restrictive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Restrictive. 33. Complete the quote- "Our life is frittered away by ..... " A) Detail. B) Opinions. C) Relationships. D) Possessions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Detail. 34. What did transcendentalists believe about individual relationships with God? A) They were inferior to institutional relationships. B) They were irrelevant . C) They were the best form of connection. D) They were unnecessary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They were the best form of connection. 35. Which of the following movements or groups of people is best described as being based in nature? A) Puritans. B) Enlightenment. C) Native Americans. D) Colonialists. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Native Americans. 36. The Scarlet Letter A) Nathaniel Hawthorne. B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. C) Walt Whitman. D) Herman Melville. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nathaniel Hawthorne. 37. "I become a transparent eyeball" is what type of figurative language & which text is it in? A) Simile & Self-Reliance. B) Metaphor & Nature. C) Blank verse and "Thanatopsis". D) Metaphor &Where I Lived and What I Lived For. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor & Nature. 38. "Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches today to save nine tomorrow" A) Men live in such a hurry today, in hopes of rest tomorrow. B) Men live in such a hurry all the time. C) Men work hard today so they don't have to work tomorrow. D) Men need to learn how to stitch better. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Men live in such a hurry today, in hopes of rest tomorrow. 39. What is the main idea of "Self-Reliance" by Emerson? A) Rely on yourself, keep close to the crowd, but don't copy them. B) Rely on yourself, share your independence with others. C) Trust yourself, be independent, don't conform. D) Trust yourself, be different, but follow the rules. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trust yourself, be independent, don't conform. 40. Which characteristic of Transcendentalism means: "failure or refusal to conform to a prevailing practice or rule" ? A) Self-Reliance. B) Free Thought. C) Importance of Nature. D) Nonconformity. E) Confidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nonconformity. 41. Who is considered to be the "father" of Transcendentalism? (RI.10.10) A) Henry David Thoreau. B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. C) Robin Williams. D) Margaret Fuller. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 42. Which of the following did Romantics value LEAST? A) Reason. B) Feeling. C) Intuition. D) Truth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reason. 43. How does nature affect humans? A) It can make them want to better themselves. B) It can make them feel small and insignificant. C) It can help them better appreciate what they have. D) It can improve their mood and bring them joy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It can improve their mood and bring them joy. 44. Which writers were associated with Concord, Massachusetts? A) Thoreau and Whitman. B) Dickinson and Whitman. C) Emerson and Dickinson. D) Thoreau and Emerson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thoreau and Emerson. 45. What is not an idea of Transcendentalism? A) Nonconformity. B) Self-Reliance. C) Carpe Diem. D) Logical Thought. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Logical Thought. 46. This was a time of renewed vigor for religious feelings. A) Second Great Awakening. B) Enlightenment. C) Renaissance. D) Revival Movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Second Great Awakening. 47. Which of the following statements would Thoreau agree with? A) If someone deceives you, you have a right to take the law into your own hands. B) The treasury makes the law, but we are not compelled to follow it. C) How we perceive things decides whether we are revolutionary. D) It is not enough to take a view against the government, you must take action. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It is not enough to take a view against the government, you must take action. 48. Jeffrey watches Dr. Phil, who is an insightful doctor.Does this have a nonrestrictive or restrictive clause? A) Restrictive. B) Nonrestrictive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nonrestrictive. 49. Who is considered the "father" of the American Transcendental movement? A) Bronson Alcott. B) Henry David Thoreau. C) Walt Whitman. D) Ralph Waldo Emerson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 50. Self-reliance is put into practice by ..... A) Thinking for yourself, no matter what anyone else believes. B) Fighting for universal suffrage. C) Refusing to contradict yourself, even if you are wrong. D) Reading the teaching of Socrates, Jesus, Luther, and Copernicus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thinking for yourself, no matter what anyone else believes. 51. Which person was a transcendentalist writer from Brooklyn, New York, who celebrated the common worker? A) Walt Whitman. B) Herman Melville. C) Henry David Thoreau. D) Washington Irving. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Walt Whitman. 52. "Can there not be a government in which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?" This is an example of ..... A) Intuition over Reason. B) Self-Reliance. C) Simplified Life. D) Non-Conformity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Intuition over Reason. 53. Which statement best describes the beliefs held by nativists in the U.S. in the mid 1800's A) Nativists welcomed immigrants and respected their work ethic. B) Nativists had no true opinion on the arrival of immigrants to the US. C) Nativists were opposed to immigrants because of their views on slavery. D) Nativists were worried that immigrants would take American jobs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nativists were worried that immigrants would take American jobs. 54. Define:To Change your Thoughts A) Religion. B) Panthesist. C) Spirituality. D) Transcendentalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Transcendentalism. 55. Which of the following represents the best definition of The Second Great Awakening? A) Salvation can only be achieved through a personal belief in Jesus Christ in some cases. B) People demonstrate true faith by leading a transformed life and by performing good deeds. C) Religion is the only way to solve the world's problems. D) The idea of including all people in the religious experience, not just rich people. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) People demonstrate true faith by leading a transformed life and by performing good deeds. 56. Into the Wild is a/an A) Novel (a made-up story). B) Historical fiction (a made-up story about a specific time period). C) Biography (a book someone writes about someone else). D) Autobiography (a book someone writes about themselves). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biography (a book someone writes about someone else). 57. T or F:Romantics, Dark Romantics, and Transcendentalists all valued city life. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 58. What does the word intuition mean? A) A thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning. B) Having knowledge of something; aware. C) Of or according to the rules of logic or formal argument. D) The world or the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning. 59. Thoreau's purpose in Walden:The Ponds is to describe his reasons for visiting Walden Pond and its surroundings. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 60. What is the noun form of perturbed? A) Perturb. B) Purturbated. C) Perturbation. D) Perturbist. 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