This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Transcendentalism > Transcendentalism Literature – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 10 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these is NOT a central belief of Transcendentalism? A) People must go to school to learn. B) God is in nature and all people. C) People should be themselves. D) Life is about being curious and learning from feeling. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) People must go to school to learn. 2. What happens to John? A) He dies from blood poisoning. B) He dies from drowning in the pond. C) He dies from a snake bite. D) He gets arrested too. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He dies from blood poisoning. 3. What is a characteristic in Anti-Transcendentalism? A) Glory of God. B) Spiritual Awareness. C) Joy of Humanity. D) Evilness of Humanity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Evilness of Humanity. 4. Transcend means to A) Go above. B) Go below. C) Go beside. D) Go beyond. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Go beyond. 5. What crime did Thoreau commit? A) Treason. B) Mail fraud. C) Tax evasion. D) Heresy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tax evasion. 6. Who wrote one of the best-known pieces of Romantic literature in The Scarlet Letter? A) Edgar Allan Poe. B) Walt Whitman. C) Emily Dickinson. D) Nathaniel Hawthorne. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nathaniel Hawthorne. 7. What does Henry teach Ellen? A) How to fish. B) How to understand nature. C) How to use her mind to transcend the limits around her. D) How to teach others about transcendentalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) How to use her mind to transcend the limits around her. 8. What did Ralph Waldo Emerson believe? A) That humans need to make more machines. B) That the animals are smarter than humans. C) That the human mind is more powerful than any machine. D) That Henry David Thoreau was intelligent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) That the human mind is more powerful than any machine. 9. This tenet is about trusting yourself and not backing down from what you believe in. You have to believe in yourself. A) Free Thought. B) Importance of Nature. C) Confidence. D) Self-Reliance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Confidence. 10. Which of the following describes Dickinson's relationship with religion? A) Devout Catholic. B) Non-practicing Jew. C) Protestant, but questioned religion. D) Raised Baptist, but became Wiccan. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Protestant, but questioned religion. 11. How did Henry first learn about Transcendentalism? A) He created it. B) A lecture by Emerson. C) Carlyle taught him. D) He took class on it at Harvard. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A lecture by Emerson. 12. Bringing up joyful shared memories in a speech is an appeal to ..... A) Ethos (trust, ethics). B) Pathos (emotion, feeling). C) Logos (logic, evidence). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pathos (emotion, feeling). 13. When Whitman used ....., he did not have a pattern of end rhyme, regular meter, or regular stanza length in his poems. A) Slant rhyme. B) Personification. C) Free verse. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free verse. 14. Which transcendental writer is this? A) Abraham Lincoln. B) Jerry Springer. C) Henry David Thoreau. D) Ralph Waldo Emerson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Henry David Thoreau. 15. How long did Thoreau live at Walden Pond? A) 2 years. B) 2 years, 2 months, 2 days. C) 2 years, 1 month, 1 day. D) 3 years, 3 months, 3 days. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2 years, 2 months, 2 days. 16. The 19th Century was a generation of people struggling to define ..... and ..... in a new way. A) Religion; spirituality. B) Industry; success. C) Work; power. D) Change; literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Religion; spirituality. 17. "O Captain! My Captain!" :The speaker says that the Captain's death"is some dream " because he A) Has had many dreams about the Captain. B) Has only imagined that the Captain is dead. C) Wishes the Captain's death was not real. D) Realizes that the Captain has been sleeping. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wishes the Captain's death was not real. 18. The first Transcendentalists were A) Thoreau, Emerson, Whitman. B) Fuller, Emerson, Thoreau. C) Emerson, Fuller, Whitman. D) Whitman, Thoreau, Shakespeare. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fuller, Emerson, Thoreau. 19. During what years was Transcendentalism most prevalent? A) 1700-1750. B) 1900-1950. C) 1800-1860. D) 1650-1700. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1800-1860. 20. What does Carpe Diem mean? A) Bona Fide. B) You Only Live Once. C) Seize the day. D) Grab Life. 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