This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Transcendentalism > Transcendentalism Literature – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 1 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "O Captain! My Captain!" :Which word best describes the tone of the speaker? A) Annoyed. B) Joyous. C) Grieving. D) Indifferent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Grieving. 2. Transcendentalism is about A) Conformity and always doing things the same way. B) Using logic and reasons. C) Moving beyond common experience and understanding. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Moving beyond common experience and understanding. 3. Divine Providence is a belief the ..... had. A) Puritans. B) Transcendentalists. C) Dark Romanticists. D) Naturalists. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Puritans. 4. Who is the author of The Raven? A) Edgar Allan Poe. B) Gertrude Stein. C) Nathaniel Hawthorne. D) James Joyce. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Edgar Allan Poe. 5. Name the work from which this quote originates: "I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world.." A) "Nature". B) "Self-Reliance". C) "Walden". D) "Civil Disobedience". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "Walden". 6. According to Emerson in 'Nature'- "Nature always wears the colors of the ..... " A) Forrest. B) Season. C) Spirit. D) Truth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spirit. 7. This poetic device is used when Emerson says the tree boughs wave to him. A) Personification. B) Anaphora. C) Cataloguing. D) Word pairing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 8. The movie, "I Am Legend" is an example of what tenet? A) Noncomformity. B) Confidence. C) Self-reliance. D) Free thought. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Self-reliance. 9. What element contributes to Southern Gothic writers' ability to identify a "freak" ? A) They are freaks themselves. B) They have strong religious values. C) American Gothic writing originated in the South. D) American Gothic writing is primarily set in the South. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They have strong religious values. 10. The 'world psyche" , the life-force, the prime mover, or God was often referred to as the ..... by many Transcendentalist thinkers. A) Undersoul. B) Oversoul. C) Transparent-soul. D) Life-soul. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oversoul. 11. Which is a tenent of Transcendentalism? A) Everyone is capable of understanding God through the use of intuition. B) The individual is secondary to God and nature. C) Inspiration comes from civilization and society. D) God is a distant, uninvolved being. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Everyone is capable of understanding God through the use of intuition. 12. Select the statement that Thoreau agree with most? A) Post office is necessary. B) Time is running out. C) Music and poetry would resound along the streets with the help of being influenced by nature. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Music and poetry would resound along the streets with the help of being influenced by nature. 13. Which of the following does William Carlos Williams' "danse russe" (411) NOT employ to achieve the title of experimental poetry? A) Describe abstract images. B) Recreating an experience. C) No figurative language. D) No symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Describe abstract images. 14. "The Raven" is the most famous work by writer and poet ..... A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. B) Walt Whitman. C) Edgar Allan Poe. D) Margaret Fuller. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Edgar Allan Poe. 15. ..... lived alone for two years at ..... A) Emerson; Walden Pond. B) Correll; Toms River. C) Clayton; Bamber Lake. D) Thoreau; Walden Pond. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thoreau; Walden Pond. 16. Gothic Literature elements include the following except ..... A) Dark, scary buildings. B) Religious messages. C) Supernatural entities. D) Detailed depictions of the setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Religious messages. 17. What Transcendental value does the quote show? "Our life is frittered away by detail ..... simplify, simplify!" A) The divinity of nature. B) The power of non-materialism. C) Independent thought. D) The power of intuition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The power of non-materialism. 18. Why didn't Henry pay for his Harvard Diploma? A) It cost $ 1. B) He didn't learn anything of value there so he didn't want it. C) He was protesting having to pay for the diploma after paying to get his education there. D) They spelled his name incorrectly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He didn't learn anything of value there so he didn't want it. 19. The characteristics of American Romantic Literature can best be summarized as A) Highlighting the "fantastic" elements of the human experience. B) Human emotion and feeling were valued over reason. C) Taking one through supernatural or imaginative settings. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 20. According to the SIX TENETS we reviewed, Transcendentalists believed that what was the highest form of the soul? A) Human intuition. B) Human individuality. C) Natural experience. D) Simplification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Human intuition. Next →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesTranscendentalism 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