This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Transcendentalism > Transcendentalism – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Quiz 8 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In the poem "Song of Myself", in what line does Whitman's narrator most clearly demonstrate optimism? A) I celebrate myself, and sing myself. B) My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air. C) Creeds and schools in abeyance. D) I harbor for good or bad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I celebrate myself, and sing myself. 2. The author of two essays- "Nature" and "Self-Reliance, " who was fed up with society and conformity A) Emily Dickinson. B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. C) Walt Whitman. D) Nathaniel Hawthorne. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 3. Which writer ignored meter, and focused on cadence '-the long easy sweep of sound that echoes the Bible and speeches of orators and preachers'? A) Thoreau. B) Dickinson. C) Emerson. D) Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Whitman. 4. True or False:Emerson is one of the most quoted men of all time. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 5. Who was the leader of the group of American thinkers who wanted to bring transcendentalism to America? A) Abraham Lincoln. B) Margaret Fuller. C) Thomas Jefferson. D) Ralph Waldo Emerson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 6. Who wrote "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" ? A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. B) Walt Whitman. C) Margaret Fuller. D) Henry David Thoreau. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Walt Whitman. 7. Who lived with Ralph Waldo Emerson for three years? (RI.10.10) A) Robin Williams. B) Mahatma Gandhi. C) Martin Luther King Jr. D) Henry David Thoreau. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Henry David Thoreau. 8. According to transcendentalists, how can basic truths be found? A) Through logic. B) Through education. C) Through religious institutions . D) Through intuition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Through intuition. 9. Another word for 'excursion' is ..... A) Hibernation. B) Diversion. C) Outing. D) Exit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Outing. 10. What does the word conscious 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: B) Having knowledge of something; aware. 11. "The watchful night-wind, as it went" represents which type of sound device? A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 12. "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide ..... " A) Walden. B) Nature. C) Civil Disobedience. D) Self Reliance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Self Reliance. 13. Which of the following is NOT considered an element of the transcendentalism movement? A) Slavery is necessary for the development of the nation. B) The govt. should be viewed with caution. C) The individual is at the center of the universe. D) Solitude in nature can provide truth for the individual. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Slavery is necessary for the development of the nation. 14. Which of the following is NOT a key principle of Transcendentalism? A) Individualism. B) Over-complication. C) Civil Disobedience. D) Oversoul. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Over-complication. 15. What was Thoreau's primary act of civil disobedience in his own life? A) Public rallies and protests. B) Refusal to pay taxes. C) Boycotting the cotton industry. D) Writing humorous satire against the government. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refusal to pay taxes. 16. The development of individualism, rebellion, and nature to embrace the natural world is ..... A) Transcendentalism. B) Romanticism. C) Colloquialism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Romanticism. 17. Which is the best definition of Transcendentalism? A) A culture obsessed with conformity and following the group. B) A philosophical movement with roots in Europe but which became uniquely American in the mid-1800s and was based on a search for ultimate reality through eight key principles. C) A specific kind of dental work. D) The act of following all of society's rules and worshipping the government. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A philosophical movement with roots in Europe but which became uniquely American in the mid-1800s and was based on a search for ultimate reality through eight key principles. 18. What is the story about a man making a deal with the devil for life-long materialism? A) The Devil and Tom Walker. B) "The Raven". C) The Fall of the House of Usher. D) Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Devil and Tom Walker. 19. What is the tone of Civil Disobedience? A) Happy and free. B) Sad and depressing. C) Demanding and persuasive. D) Inventive and inspiring. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Demanding and persuasive. 20. Ralph Waldo Emerson spoke on A) Self-reliance. B) Conforming. C) Relying on God. D) Obedience. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Self-reliance. 21. Which tenet of Transcendentalism fits BEST with this image? A) Connecting with Nature. B) Self-Reliance. C) Nonconformity. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connecting with Nature. 22. What is the type of figurative language used in the following line: "Sally sold seven seashells by the seashore." A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 23. Valentina's hard work ..... her family's way of helping her grow as a great student. It is clear that her family guided her. A) Inherent. B) Intuition. C) Exalted. D) Peculiar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exalted. 24. Which of the following movements or groups of people used the Bible as a model for their writing and every day life? A) Native Americans. B) Transcendentalists. C) Puritans. D) Colonialists. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Puritans. 25. Transcendentalism had ..... involved in the movement. A) The same meaning for every person involved. B) Different meanings for every person involved. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Different meanings for every person involved. 26. Excellence or beauty to inspire great admiration is ..... A) Gothic. B) Satire. C) Sublime. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sublime. 27. "The rooms were whitewashed once a month; at this one, at least, was the whitest, most simply furnished, and probably the neatest apartment in the town." The way that Thoreau describes his prison cell is an example of ..... A) Simplified Life. B) Intuition over Reason. C) Self-Reliance. D) Non-Conformity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simplified Life. 28. What artist gained importance during this movement? A) Designers. B) Poets. C) Painters. D) Novelists. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poets. 29. "Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!" A) Walden. B) Thanatopsis. C) Civil Disobedience. D) Self Reliance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Walden. 30. The same sound at the beginning of a line of words is ..... A) Sublime. B) Tone. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 31. What do transcendentalists believe that humans are most connected to? A) Machines. B) Literature. C) Nature. D) Animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nature. 32. 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, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. What is the Title of this piece by Thoreau, pulled from "Walden" A) Where I Lived, and What I Lived For. B) Solitude. C) Spring. D) Civil Disobedience. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Where I Lived, and What I Lived For. 33. What is the point of the comparison Emerson makes between the kernel of corn and human effort? A) You must work hard to nurture vegetable crops, just as you must work hard to achieve your potential. B) People cannot survive without food, so we must all work very hard. C) As corn grows slowly, so it takes a long time for people to realize their potential. D) A kernel of corn is very small and hard to see. In a similar way, our potential is often hidden and hard to see. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) You must work hard to nurture vegetable crops, just as you must work hard to achieve your potential. 34. Fill in the blank: ..... OVER Institution A) Feeling. B) Reason. C) All. D) Individualism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Individualism. 35. Which writer is our most local (from Long Island, NY, lived in Brooklyn, Camden, etc.)? A) Whitman. B) Thoreau. C) Emerson. D) Dickinson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Whitman. 36. A 'swath' is ..... A) A row of cut grain or grass left by a scythe or mowing machine. B) A wave breaking in the ocean. C) The froth on top of a cappuccino. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A row of cut grain or grass left by a scythe or mowing machine. 37. This Transcendentalist wrote poetry inspired by their Puritan upbringing and their poetry was published posthumously A) Emily Dickinson. B) Walt Whitman. C) Ralph Waldo Emerson. D) Margaret Fuller. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emily Dickinson. 38. According to Thoreau we should ..... A) Make sure that we always fully support our government. B) Make sure we do not indirectly support unjust governments. C) Remain peaceful as we tolerate unjust governments. D) Always remain loyal and fight for our governments. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Make sure we do not indirectly support unjust governments. 39. In what area of the country was this movement centered? A) Midwest. B) Deep South. C) West Coast. D) New England. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) New England. 40. Which word below doesn't align with the suffix-er, -or, -ist? A) Seer. B) Power. C) Florist. D) Doctor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Power. 41. This author was not into the poetic verse, and instead preferred to contribute to the genre with his authorship of novels like The Scarlet Letter or short stories like "The Minister's Black Veil." A) Nathaniel Hawthorne. B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. C) Walt Whitman. D) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nathaniel Hawthorne. 42. Which is NOT a philosophy of Transcendentalism? A) People should spend more time in thought than in worship. B) Nature is a mirror of human life. C) People are inherently flawed and powerless. D) Individuals are more powerful than political and religious institutions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) People are inherently flawed and powerless. 43. What does blank verse mean? A) A poem that consists of only quatrains. B) A poem that consist only ABBA rhyme scheme. C) A poem that has no rhyme scheme, but is written in iambic pentameter. D) A poem that has end rhyme and is written in iambic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A poem that has no rhyme scheme, but is written in iambic pentameter. 44. In Dead Poets Society, Mr. John Keating (played by Robin Williams), tells his students at a strict all-boys boarding school, Welton Academy, to rip the pages out of the front of a poetry textbook. Which of the following transcendentalist facets is best represented through his actions? (RI.10.10) A) Nonconformity. B) Confidence. C) Self-Reliance. D) Importance of Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nonconformity. 45. "To be great is to be misunderstood" is an example of an A) Paradox. B) Anaphora. C) Aphorism. D) Compliment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aphorism. 46. "I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all:the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am a particle of God." A) Civil Disobedience. B) Walden. C) Nature. D) Self Reliance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nature. 47. How did Dickinson's family go against her wishes after the died? A) They stopped giving candy to the children. B) They published her poems that she wanted destroyed. C) They threw away her white dress. D) They edited her poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They published her poems that she wanted destroyed. 48. What is the meter in Thanatopsis? A) Trochaic pentameter. B) Iambic trimeter. C) Iambic pentameter. D) Trochaic trimeter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iambic pentameter. 49. Who was fired from their job as a journalist due to their opposition of slavery? A) Walt Whitman. B) Emily Dickinson. C) Gandhi. D) Waldo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Walt Whitman. 50. Which German philosopher did many ideals come from? A) Immanuel Kant. B) Franz Kafka. C) Gertrude Stein. D) Sigmund Freud. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Immanuel Kant. 51. A style of writing that is characterized by fear, but also nature is A) Romanticism. B) Gothic. C) Transcendentalism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gothic. 52. True or False?In Romanticism, people felt that there must be more to life than logical, rational experience. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 53. Who is considered the founder of transcendentalism? A) John Locke. B) Margaret Fuller. C) Henry David Thoreau. D) Ralph Waldo Emerson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 54. What did Emerson write that is considered a foundational work of Transcendental philosophy? A) Nature. B) Civil Disobedience. C) Self-Reliance. D) Leaves of Grass. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Self-Reliance. 55. I love nature, snow, the outdoors and I have tried hard to ..... the benefits of enjoying Mother Earth to my kids. A) Impart. B) Manifest. C) Admonish. D) Integrate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Impart. 56. "Society is a joint-stock company, in which members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater." What trademark of transcendentalism does this represent? A) Simplified Life. B) Self-Reliance. C) Non-Conformity. D) Intuition over Reason. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Non-Conformity. 57. Which American novelist is known for his tales of the American frontier, including The Last of the Mohicans? A) James Fenimore Cooper. B) Washington Irving. C) Herman Melville. D) Walt Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) James Fenimore Cooper. 58. Whitman shows the interconnectivity of life and a positive perspective on death through a study of A) Clouds. B) Grass. C) Nature. D) Trees. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Grass. 59. Transcendentalists believed they could overcome what? A) The Physical World. B) Women. C) Small Pox. D) Government. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Physical World. 60. Which of the following definitions best represents the meaning of the word manifest? A) To make evident or certain by showing, displaying, or invoking. 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) An effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning. 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