This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Transcendentalism > Transcendentalism Literature – Quiz 17 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 17 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who was the founder of an all-female academy in Hartford, Connecticut? A) Dorothea Dix. B) Catharine Beecher. C) Harriet Beecher Stowe. D) Margaret Fuller. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Catharine Beecher. 2. Emerson observes that nature always "wears the colors of the spirit." What is meant by this? A) Nature dresses up for Halloween. B) Nature never dresses itself. C) Nature reflects the emotion of man. D) Nature is empty and vain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nature reflects the emotion of man. 3. Who wrote the Transcendentalist manifesto, Nature? A) Henry David Thoreau. B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. C) Margaret Fuller. D) Walt Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 4. According to Stephen King ("Danse Macabre" ), what are we (as an audience) most afraid of? A) Violence. B) The supernatural. C) Growing old. D) The unknown. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The unknown. 5. All of the following were social reforms during this time period EXCEPT? A) Abolition of slavery. B) Education. C) Children labor laws. D) Women's rights. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Children labor laws. 6. Who put gloves on the chickens? A) Edward. B) Waldo. C) Henry. D) Lydian. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Henry. 7. The transcendental tenet of "oversoul" believes that A) Voice of truth is through nature. B) God wants people to go against the church and laws of society. C) Voice of truth is through intuition. D) God lives in everyone and we can communicate with him without a church. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) God lives in everyone and we can communicate with him without a church. 8. What tenet does this picture represent? A) Nonconformity. B) Free thought. C) Importance of nature. D) Self-reliance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nonconformity. 9. In Longfellow's poem, "The Tide Rises the Tide Falls" what might the traveler symbolize? A) The permanence of man. B) The permanence of time. C) The Poet. D) An Everyman figure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An Everyman figure. 10. According to Emerson, people who want to find good in the world should rely upon A) Education. B) Religion. C) Wise men of the past. D) Themselves. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Themselves. 11. How many lines are in this poem? A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 12. What is the central idea in Civil Disobedience? A) People must overthrow the government. B) The fewer who run the government the better. C) Citizens should be willing to act on their opinions. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The fewer who run the government the better. 13. How many rooms were there for the party in "Masque Of the Red Death" ? A) Seven. B) Ten. C) Zero. D) Four. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Seven. 14. According to Emerson, what will make a man gay and relieved? A) When he learns what other people's purpose in life is. B) When he follows the crowd for the first time. C) When he puts his heart into his work. D) When he finally gives up on things. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) When he puts his heart into his work. 15. Which author is not a Transcendentalist thinker A) Henry David Thoreau. B) Margaret Fuller. C) Ralph Waldo Emerson. D) Robin Williams. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Robin Williams. 16. Emerson writes that this is suicide ..... A) Envy. B) Imitation. C) Flattery. D) Ignorance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imitation. 17. Who said "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist" ? A) Thoreau. B) Emerson. C) Whitman. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Emerson. 18. All of the following were Transcendentalist authors except A) John Steinbeck. B) Walt Whitman. C) Ralph Waldo Emerson. D) Henry David Thoreau. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) John Steinbeck. 19. In Walden, Thoreau is advocating for ..... A) Attention to detail. B) More social freedom. C) Less individuality. D) Simple, structured living. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simple, structured living. 20. What image accompanies this quote by Emerson, "All mean egotism vanishes ..... " A) A ship sailing on the choppy seas of civilized life. B) A great transparent eyeball. C) The god of loons. D) Solitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A great transparent eyeball. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements 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 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books