This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Transcendentalism > Transcendentalism Literature – Quiz 14 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 14 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the tone of the following section? Bursting through the door, the flustered mother screamed uncontrollably at the innocent teacher who gave her child an F. A) Happy. B) Angry. C) Joyful. D) Amused. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Angry. 2. What is a Rhetorical Precis? A) Summary. B) Narrative. C) Argumentative. D) Explanatory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Summary. 3. Which of the following is the most worthy of respect in Transcendentalism? A) The law. B) The will of the majority. C) God's laws. D) The individual conscience. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The individual conscience. 4. What is the central idea of "Civil Disobedience" ? A) People must overthrow the government. B) Trade and commerce should be strictly regulated. C) The fewer people who run the government the better. D) Citizens should be willing to act on their opinions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Citizens should be willing to act on their opinions. 5. The following is an example of .....: "If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man" (Civil Disobedience, 376). A) Irony. B) Aphorism. C) Paradox. D) Romanticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aphorism. 6. How many stanzas are in this poem? A) 2. B) 4. C) 14. D) 15. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 4. 7. What document officially requested equal rights for women? A) Declaration of Independence. B) Declaration of Seneca Falls. C) Declaration of Sentiments. D) Declaration of Suffrage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Declaration of Sentiments. 8. What poetic device is Whitman using when he lists many different workers in "I hear America Singing? " A) End Rhyme. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Cataloguing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cataloguing. 9. Thoreau's attitude toward newspapers and letters is one of A) Fondness. B) Fascination. C) Annoyance. D) Grudging acceptance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Annoyance. 10. This tenet is when someone does not go along with what society wants him or her to do. A) Free Thought. B) Nonconformity. C) Importance of Nature. D) Self-Reliance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nonconformity. 11. "Self-Reliance" ContentWhich of the following expresses a key idea of the selection from "Self-Reliance" ? A) Be guided by the will of the majority. B) It is wise to try to be like others. C) The individual mind is the only guide. D) Social customs are necessary for peace. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The individual mind is the only guide. 12. Who is considered the "father/teacher" of Transcendentalism? A) Henry David Thoreau. B) Margaret Fuller. C) Ralph Waldo Emerson. D) Robin Williams. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 13. Two things that the Romantics and Transcendentalists would write about? A) Money. B) Family. C) The Past and Inner world of human nature. D) Health. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Past and Inner world of human nature. 14. This quote: "The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do." Is an example of what tenet? A) Importance of nature. B) Self-reliance. C) Nonconformity. D) Free thought. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nonconformity. 15. Transcendentalists embraced ..... and rejected ..... A) Cats; dogs. B) God; secularism. C) Academia; popular society. D) Idealism; materialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idealism; materialism. 16. Who was an escaped slave who freed more than 300 others using the Underground Railroad? A) Sojourner Truth. B) Lucretia Mott. C) William Lloyd Garrison. D) Harriet Tubman. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Harriet Tubman. 17. ..... is the title of the major work of Whitman's career. A) Song of the Lark. B) "Concord Hymn". C) Leaves of Grass. D) "The Rhodora". Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Leaves of Grass. 18. Which theme of Transcendentalism is the following quote referring to? "a focus on the connection between humans and the natural world? A) Nonconformity. B) Self-Reliance. C) Confidence. D) Importance of Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Importance of Nature. 19. Transcendentalists did not like the ..... side of American life. A) Natural. B) Financial. C) Free. D) Intelligent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Financial. 20. Dark Romanticism often talks about the ..... A) Origins of life. B) Physiological (the body). C) Natural world. D) Psychological (the mind). 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