This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Transcendentalism Literature – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 11 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Transcendentalism is NOT A) A religion. B) A literary movement. C) A philosophy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A religion. 2. What is an important theme in "Song of Myself? " A) Darkness and Destruction. B) Unity and Democracy. C) Power and Authority. D) Money and Wealth Accumulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unity and Democracy. 3. VocabularyDefinition:lasting forever A) Aversion. B) Conviction. C) Tranquil. D) Perpetual. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Perpetual. 4. Which of the following authors was NOT a dark romantic writer? A) Edgar Allan Poe. B) Washington Irving. C) William Shakespeare. D) Herman Melville. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Shakespeare. 5. In "Civil Disobedience" what does Thoreau ask for instead of no government all at once? A) A better government. B) An honest politician. C) Increased and better commerce. D) An end to unjust taxation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A better government. 6. Which of the following is America's preeminent Gothic author? A) Emerson. B) Thoreou. C) Longfellow. D) Poe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poe. 7. Inspired Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ghandi A) Emerson. B) Alcott. C) Fuller. D) Thoreau. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thoreau. 8. Which of the following did Transcendentalists NOT like/appreciate? A) Nature. B) Formal Education. C) Childlike Innocence. D) Intuition & Imagination. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Formal Education. 9. ..... wrote Walden. A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. B) Walt Whitman. C) Bronson Alcott. D) Henry David Thoreau. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Henry David Thoreau. 10. Which of the following was NOT a Transcendentalist? A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. B) Henry David Thoreau. C) Bronson Alcott. D) Jonathon Edwards. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jonathon Edwards. 11. Who was not a prominent Anti-Transcendentalist author during this time period? A) T.S Elliot. B) Nathaniel Hawthorne. C) Edgar Allan Poe. D) Herman Melville. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) T.S Elliot. 12. Which one of these is not a tenet of transcendentalism? A) Uniformity. B) Non-conformity. C) Free thought. D) Self reliance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Uniformity. 13. What was happening during this time period? A) Invention of Airplanes. B) The Louisiana Purchase. C) Buying Alaska. D) French and Indian War. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Louisiana Purchase. 14. Why did Thoreau live close to Walden Pond for two years? A) To reconnect with nature. B) To re-evaluate his way of living. C) To escape the pressures of society. D) To write a book. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To re-evaluate his way of living. 15. "Civil Disobedience" is written by A) Emerson. B) Thoreau. C) Whitman. D) Dickinson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thoreau. 16. VocabularyDefinition:strong belief A) Conviction. B) Perpetual. C) Chaos. D) Absolve. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conviction. 17. Who was a supporter of women's rights movement who helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention; co-founder of Woman Suffrage Association? A) Margaret Fuller. B) Harriet Tubman. C) Elizabeth Cady Stanton. D) Catharine Beecher. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 18. A famous collection of essays by Emerson was titled ..... A) Self-Awareness. B) Self-Reliance. C) Self-Taught. D) Self-Esteem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Self-Reliance. 19. Wrote "The American Scholar" and "Self-Reliance" A) Margaret Fuller. B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. C) Henry David Thoreau. D) Benjamin Franklin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 20. What does Emerson call "the hobgoblin of little minds" ? That is, what makes unintelligent people comfortable remaining unintelligent? A) Consistency. B) Society. C) Cowardice. D) Conspiracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consistency. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTranscendentalism Literature Quiz 1Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 2Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 3Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 4Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 5Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 6Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 7Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 8Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 9Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books