This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Transcendentalism > Transcendentalism Literature – Quiz 19 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 19 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What strong emotion does Dickinson convey when talking about the Emperor at her door? A) Cold and estranged. B) Warm and welcoming. C) Joyful and glee. D) Harmonious and connected. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cold and estranged. 2. Many Transcendentalists were known for their opposition to A) Human rights. B) Minimum wage. C) Slavery. D) Freedom of speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Slavery. 3. Transcendentalism was a philosophy within what larger literary movement? A) Puritanism. B) American Romanticism. C) The Enlightenment. D) American Realism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) American Romanticism. 4. Wrote "Civil Disobedience" A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. B) Henry David Thoreau. C) Bronson Alcott. D) Ghandi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Henry David Thoreau. 5. Who said this:"You got it dude" A) Margaret Fuller. B) Michelle Tanner. C) Henry David Thoreau. D) Ralph Waldo Emerson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Michelle Tanner. 6. When did Dark Romanticism take place? A) 1800s. B) 1900s. C) 2000s. D) 1700s. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1800s. 7. "O Captain! My Captain!":Why are the poeple "all exulting? " A) The Captian was a tyrant who they all wanted dead. B) The people are celebrating the long life of the Captain. C) The people are joyous that the war is over; the confederate army has surrendered. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The people are joyous that the war is over; the confederate army has surrendered. 8. What was Thoreau's main idea in Walden? A) Simplicity is key. B) Revolutions matter. C) Imitation is suicide. D) Materialism is best when used in moderation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simplicity is key. 9. Which of the following is a main trait of the Romantic Period? A) Poetry is the highest expression of imagination. B) Feeling, emotion, and intuition are valued over reason. C) Nature's path leads to spiritual enlightenment. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 10. The following statement is an example of what literary device? "That government is best that governs the least." A) Anapest. B) Oxymoron. C) Paradox. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paradox. 11. What device does Whitman use when he puts similar ideas together with "and" that gives a Biblical cadence? A) Word Pairing. B) Juxtaposition. C) Anaphora. D) Cataloguing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Word Pairing. 12. The following is an example of .....: "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison" (Civil Disobedience, 374). A) Irony. B) Aphorism. C) Paradox. D) Romanticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paradox. 13. Transcendentalists saw Nature as A) Sacred and Powerful. B) Beautiful. C) Symbolic. D) All of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the Above. 14. How long did Thoreau spend at Walden Pond? A) Six weeks. B) A little over two years. C) One year. D) Seven years. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A little over two years. 15. What's the major theme in the essay, "Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson? A) Spirituality. B) Simplicity. C) Civilism. D) Materialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spirituality. 16. In "Self Reliance, " Emerson writes that we should ..... ourselves above all us. A) Work on. B) Criticize. C) Believe in. D) Trust. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Trust. 17. What is one way that Transcendentalists tried to "transcend" or clear their minds to focus on the human experience? A) Transcendentalist Therapy. B) Transcendentalist Meditation. C) Build their own cabins the woods. D) Clear forests. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Transcendentalist Meditation. 18. "Self-Reliance" ContentIn "Self-Reliance, " Emerson writes that society "loves not realities and creators, but names and customs." Which of these adjectives best reflects Emerson's attitude in that statement? A) Disapproving. B) Accepting. C) Encouraging. D) Forgiving. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Disapproving. 19. Isn't 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. 20. Which of the following was NOT part of this unit? A) Romanticism. B) Realism. C) Gothic. D) Transcendentalism. 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