This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Transcendentalism > Transcendentalism – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Quiz 7 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What or who does Bryant call "She" in Thanatopsis? A) Holy Spirit. B) The land. C) The Ocean. D) Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nature. 2. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach ..... " A) Nature. B) Self Reliance. C) Walden. D) Civil Disobedience. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Walden. 3. Gothic plot structures include A) Ominous implications preceding dark events. B) Telling you when the monster or protagonist is going to appear. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ominous implications preceding dark events. 4. Who were influenced by Thoreau's ideas and actions? A) Martin Luther King Jr. B) Cesar Chavez. C) Mohandas K. Gandhi. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 5. What did Emerson urge people to use to guide their lives? A) Inner light. B) Physical nature. C) Reason. D) Faith. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inner light. 6. 'Predominant' means ..... A) Main or primary. B) Prehistoric. C) Prequel. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Main or primary. 7. According to Transcendentalism, conflicts should be solved with: A) Therapy sessions. B) Love. C) Violence. D) Non-violence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Non-violence. 8. Teachers work in the ..... of students strengths; whatever comes natural in them. A) Nurturing. B) Inherent. C) Intuition. D) Peculiar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nurturing. 9. Read the excerpt below by Walt Whitman. Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. Which statement best summarizes the excerpt? A) The common people in the United States give the nation its vitality. B) The wealthy upper class in other countries gives each nation its vitality. C) The powerful upper class in the United States gives the nation its vitality. D) The common people in other countries give each nation its vitality. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The common people in the United States give the nation its vitality. 10. What did Thoreau believe about non-violent protest? A) It is irrelevant. B) It is influenced by reason. C) It is necessary for progress. D) It is ineffective. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is necessary for progress. 11. What does sublime mean? A) Green, slimy, gross as to cause fear. B) Excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe. C) Cold, hard, ugly as to evoke sadness. D) Soft, pink, happy as to inspire joy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe. 12. What does Thoreau assert is necessary for living? A) Thoreau suggests that fashionable clothing is a necessity. B) Thoreau states that high-end housing is a necessary for living. C) Thoreau suggests to only eat what you need, buy what you can afford, and live simply. D) Thoreau asserts that working for large corporations in order to make a sizable living is a necessity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thoreau suggests to only eat what you need, buy what you can afford, and live simply. 13. Which word means hostility and ill-treatment based on stereotyped beliefs? A) Persecution. B) Ostentatious. C) Prosecution. D) Melancholy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Persecution. 14. What is the "singing" that the speaker hears in "I Hear America Singing" ? A) The language of different ethnic groups in the American melting pot. B) The songs from foreign lands brought to America by immigrants. C) The individuality of Americans in various walks of life. D) The poetry of Whitman and other American poets. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The individuality of Americans in various walks of life. 15. Another word for 'crudeness' is ..... A) Gentleness. B) Meanness. C) Loveliness. D) Power. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meanness. 16. Something that is lawful or fair is A) Unjust. B) Unfair. C) Just. D) Same. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Just. 17. What word means giving or indicating a good chance of success; favorable? A) Propitious. B) Recreation. C) Speculating. D) Ostentatious. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Propitious. 18. What did Emerson believe about the importance of the individual? A) It comes from physical nature. B) It is irrelevant. C) It comes from faith and country. D) It comes from reason. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It comes from physical nature. 19. Something that is unfair or unlawful is A) Unjust. B) Fair. C) Equal. D) Just. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unjust. 20. What is a society? A) A person whose behavior or views do not conform to popular ideas or practices. B) The habit or principle of being independent and self-reliant. C) A person who conforms to accepted behavior or established practices. D) People living together in a more or less ordered community. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) People living together in a more or less ordered community. 21. In what region of the United States did Transcendentalist writers (mainly) live? A) The South. B) The Southwest. C) The Midwest. D) New England. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) New England. 22. Hudson River School artists were influenced by A) Success of social reform movement in the US. B) Migration of settlers to the U.S. frontier. C) Natural landscape of the United States. D) Environmental effects of U.S. industrialization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Natural landscape of the United States. 23. In the poem "Song of Myself", in what line does Whitman most clearly describe pleasure in a simple lifestyle? A) And what I assume you shall assume. B) I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. C) I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy. D) Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. 24. What is Emerson's attitude towards the natural world? A) The time spent on natural events are natural. B) Nature teems with positivity. C) Individuals must depend on nature to thrive. D) Independence is the best form of life. E) Society is volatile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nature teems with positivity. 25. Aobo's joyfulness ..... when he saw his grade. He did not know what it was; it was 100%. A) Emerged. B) Transcended. C) Peculiar. D) Exalted. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emerged. 26. What romantic and transcendental idea(s) are integrated in "Thanatopsis?" A) Solitude. B) Individualism. C) Interconnectedness with nature. D) Self-Reliance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Interconnectedness with nature. 27. "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer" A) March to your own beat. B) Go at your own pace. C) Stick to the group. D) Don't wander off track. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) March to your own beat. 28. What is the central idea of Where I Lived and What I Lived For? A) People need to find simplicity in their lives and appreciate what life and nature has to offer. B) People need to take advantage of technology and always find time to be on their phone. C) People need to hurry through life and not appreciate each day. D) People should control nature and construct it to its unnatural form. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) People need to find simplicity in their lives and appreciate what life and nature has to offer. 29. "Alex admitted that the only food in his pack was a ten-pound bag of rice. His gear seemed exceedingly minimal for the harsh conditions of the interior ..... " This quote exemplifies what aspect of Alex McCandless? A) Intiution over Reason. B) Non-Conformity. C) Simplified Life. D) The Importance of Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simplified Life. 30. What is an expectation? A) A person whose behavior or views do not conform to popular ideas or practices. B) The habit or principle of being independent and self-reliant. C) A belief that someone will do or should achieve something. D) People living together in a more or less ordered community. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A belief that someone will do or should achieve something. 31. True or False-An example of civil disobedience could be refusing to pay taxes. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 32. How did Emily Dickinson reflect romanticism in her poetry? A) Dickinson wrote about everyday life in an unimaginative way. B) Dickinson wrote poems that addressed death and nature. C) Dickinson wrote poetry in an orderly and practical style. D) Dickinson wrote about responsibility and urban society. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dickinson wrote poems that addressed death and nature. 33. What does Krakauer mention in the Author's Note that caused Chris to die in the wild? A) An attack by another person. B) A bear attack that he tried to defend himself from. C) The cold winter temperature in Alaska. D) One or two seemingly insignificant blunders. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) One or two seemingly insignificant blunders. 34. What is the relationship between nature and humans like? A) Destined & invaluable. B) Stark & impactful. C) Mutual & harmonious. D) Ominous & daring. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mutual & harmonious. 35. Whose career began or really took off/launched, after their death? A) Emerson. B) Thoreau. C) Dickinson. D) Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dickinson. 36. The Transcendentalist would agree that following social customs, expectations, and social trends will lead to a more comfortable and valuable life. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 37. Which of the following groups of people believed in the good in man? A) Colonialists. B) Transcendentalists. C) Puritans. D) American Gothic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Transcendentalists. 38. Which is an example of Civil Disobedience? A) Running from the cops. B) Writing letters to congress expressing your anger. C) Spray painting stop signs. D) Not paying taxes because you don't agree with where the money is going. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Not paying taxes because you don't agree with where the money is going. 39. Much like the Romantics, valued intuition over logic and reason A) Romanticism. B) Transcendentalism. C) Dark Romanticism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dark Romanticism. 40. What is the meaning of "assuaged" as it is used in the excerpt below? "Over this great expanse there is no disturbance but it is thus at once gently smoothed away and assuaged." A) Calmed. B) Reflected. C) Alerted. D) Muted. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Calmed. 41. "Nature always wears the colors of the spirit" is an example of what figurative language? A) Allusion. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 42. This key Transcendentalist is most famous for living on Walden pond for two years and was a "disciple" of Emerson A) Walt Whitman. B) Margaret Fuller. C) Ralph Waldo Emerson. D) Henry David Thoreau. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Henry David Thoreau. 43. According to Thoreau, can you be free while still in jail? A) NO. B) YES. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) YES. 44. Placed faith in inner experiences and the power of imagination A) Transcendentalism. B) Romanticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Romanticism. 45. Who wrote the Romantic excerpt, Nature? A) Nathaniel Hawthorne. B) William Blake. C) Edgar Allan Poe. D) Ralph Waldo Emerson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 46. According to Emerson in "Self Reliance" how should we live our lives? A) By accepting that great men are always betrayed. B) By refusing to flee from a revolution. C) By accepting our circumstances and trusting ourselves. D) By trying to imitate the childlike geniuses of our age. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By accepting our circumstances and trusting ourselves. 47. Which Transcendentalist wrote the book 'Nature'? A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. B) Emily Dickinson. C) Henry David Thoreau. D) Walt Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 48. Values feeling and intuition over reason A) Transcendentalism. B) Romanticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Romanticism. 49. Which poet purposefully used grammatical errors and irregular capitalization in their poetry? A) Sylvia Plath. B) Walt Whitman. C) Ralph Waldo Emerson. D) Emily Dickinson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Emily Dickinson. 50. What is the Oversoul? A) Shared universal soul of God, nature, and humanity. B) When the soul takes over the human. C) When the souls of God, nature, and humanity are separate. D) When people think with their soul rather than their heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shared universal soul of God, nature, and humanity. 51. In the following excerpt, what does "bread" mean? "Society is a joint-stock company in which the members agree for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity." A) A food rich in carbohydrates. B) A school or college. C) A type of currency or money. D) A stock company. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A type of currency or money. 52. Which of the following most accurately describes the impact that the gold rush had the west coast.? A) There was a sudden decrease in population in California. B) The gold rush led to financial gains for the majority of 49ers. C) The gold rush led to a dramatic increase in population. D) The gold rush had no effect on the west coast. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The gold rush led to a dramatic increase in population. 53. When did Transcendentalism begin to emerge? A) It never emerged. B) In the late 1800s. C) In the early 1900s. D) In the late 1700s. E) In the early 1800s. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) In the early 1800s. 54. Someone who loves to nag, criticize, and sneer is a(n) A) Usurer. B) Usurper. C) Censor. D) Speculator. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Censor. 55. In which city did Transcendentalism find its roots? A) Concord, MA. B) Washington D.C. C) London, England. D) Salem, Ma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Concord, MA. 56. What are the three types of appeals? A) Emotional, Logical, Ethical. B) Emotional, Physcial, Philosopichal. C) Factual, Logical, Knowledgeable. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emotional, Logical, Ethical. 57. "The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws; just and unjust ..... One has a not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." Martin Luther King Jr. embodies this trait in this quote: A) Non-Conformity. B) Self-Reliance. C) The Importance of Nature. D) Simplified Life. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Non-Conformity. 58. Which war did Thoreau write "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience" ? A) The French and Indian War. B) The Mexican American War. C) The Revolutionary War. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Mexican American War. 59. Group of authors who contemplated sin, the nature of human fallibility, and the intrinsic challenges of social reform A) Unitarianism. B) Essay. C) The Dark Romantics. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Dark Romantics. 60. Transcendentalists believed all people are inherently ..... (RI.10.10) A) Evil. B) Neutral. C) Good. D) Bad. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Good. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesTranscendentalism Quiz 1Transcendentalism Quiz 2Transcendentalism Quiz 3Transcendentalism Quiz 4Transcendentalism Quiz 5Transcendentalism Quiz 6Transcendentalism Quiz 8Transcendentalism Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books