Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 2 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which one is Thoreau?

Correct Answer: A) .

2. A belief that people should rise above material things in life and that people should depend on themselves rather than outside authority.

Correct Answer: C) Transcendentalism.

3. This device is an object that has deeper meaning beyond its literal sense

Correct Answer: C) Symbol.

4. According to Transcendentalist views,

Correct Answer: A) Materialism is bad.

5. Why did Henry quit teaching?

Correct Answer: D) Mr. Ball made him flog his students.

6. Which individual lived in a cabin for two years?

Correct Answer: C) Thoreau.

7. How do Transcendentalists feel about wealth or material possessions?

Correct Answer: A) They abominate it.

8. "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members" means .....

Correct Answer: C) Society is against individuality.

9. Who said "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.."

Correct Answer: C) Henry David Thoreau.

10. What is a main idea in "Self-Reliance" ?

Correct Answer: B) The individual mind is the only guide.

11. Transcendentalists believed all people are inherently:

Correct Answer: A) Good.

12. The form of protest that peacefully protests unjust laws is called

Correct Answer: A) Civil disobedience.

13. "I Hear America Singing" is written by

Correct Answer: C) Whitman.

14. What is the basic idea from "Nature" ?

Correct Answer: C) Humans & nature are connected.

15. Where did Transcendentalism begin?

Correct Answer: A) New England.

16. Which Transcendentalist died in a shipwreck?

Correct Answer: B) Margaret Fuller.

17. In "The Cask of Amontillado, " who is the narrator, or the character who tells the story?

Correct Answer: D) Montresor.

18. "O Captain! My Captain!" was written just after the end of the Civil War. The speaker's description of a captain who dies most likely refers to

Correct Answer: B) Abraham Lincoln.

19. The German philosopher who first used the term "transcendental" was:

Correct Answer: B) Immanuel Kant.

20. What circumstance is Emerson in when "mean egotism vanishes? "

Correct Answer: C) He is standing on the bare ground, his head bathed by air.