This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Transcendentalism > Transcendentalism Literature – Quiz 20 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 20 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which movement or group is best described as being overly religious? A) Puritans. B) Native Americans. C) Enlightenment. D) Colonialists. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Puritans. 2. How did the raven get into the house? A) He flew down the chimney. B) He stepped in from the window. C) He was already in the house. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He stepped in from the window. 3. Wrote "Self-Reliance" and created the idea of Transcendentalism. A) Margret Fuller. B) Henry David Thoreau. C) Bronson Alcott. D) Ralph Waldo Emerson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 4. What was the abolition movement? A) Campaign to end alcohol consumption. B) Campaign for religious freedom. C) Campaign to end slavery. D) Campaign to fight for slavery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Campaign to end slavery. 5. Complete the following quote: "To be great is to be ..... " A) Saved. B) A genius. C) Intelligent. D) Misunderstood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Misunderstood. 6. This main idea is about connecting to the world around you and using that to understand yourself. A) Importance of Nature. B) Confidence. C) Free Thought. D) Nonconformity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Importance of Nature. 7. In "I Hear America Singing, " Whitman employs ..... to express the variety of people that make up America.Eg:"The carpenter singing ..... The mason singing ..... The boatman singing ..... " (397) A) Paradox. B) Repetition. C) Paralellism. D) Cataloging. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cataloging. 8. Which is NOT one of Ralph Waldo Emerson's noted writings? A) The British Scholar. B) Fate. C) Self-Reliance. D) Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The British Scholar. 9. Define:Visually descriptive or figurative language A) Aphorism. B) Diction. C) Metaphor. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 10. What is society compared to in "Self-Reliance" ? A) Chaos. B) Joint-stock company. C) Conspiracy. D) Nothing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Joint-stock company. 11. What is the purpose of a science article about grasshoppers? A) To inform the reader. B) To entertain the reader. C) To persuade the reader. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To inform the reader. 12. Who was the minister that spoke widely about the evils of alcohol? A) Horace Mann. B) Dorothea Dix. C) Frederick Douglass. D) Lyman Beecher. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lyman Beecher. 13. According to "Nature, " where should a person go to be alone? A) His chamber. B) City streets. C) A church. D) Outside. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Outside. 14. Which is most like Thoreau? A) He has little respect for women. B) Prefers owning ideas and images to possessing property. C) He hates animals. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prefers owning ideas and images to possessing property. 15. What punctuation feature is unique to Emily Dickinson's poem "The Soul Selects Her Own Society? " A) Period. B) Comma. C) Dash mark. D) Exclamation mark. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dash mark. 16. Transcendentalism is part of what literary era? A) The Age of Reason. B) Romanticism. C) Calvinism. D) Minimalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Romanticism. 17. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem? Twinkle, twinkle little starhow I wonder what you are.Up above the world so highlike a diamond in the sky. A) ABCA. B) ABAC. C) ABBA. D) AABB. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) AABB. 18. Citing a study done by a university is an appeal to ..... A) Pathos (emotion, feeling). B) Logos (logic, evidence). C) Ethos (trust, ethics). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Logos (logic, evidence). 19. While Transcendentalists focus on nature and man's capacity for good, Gothic works often feature ..... A) Technology and man's capacity for improvement. B) The supernatural and man's capacity for evil. C) Art and man's capacity for creativity. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The supernatural and man's capacity for evil. 20. What was the political party founded by nativists in 1849? A) Democratic Party. B) Whig Party. C) Know-Nothing Party. D) /Republican Party. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Know-Nothing Party. ← 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