Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 21 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the main theme of Civil Disobedience?

Correct Answer: B) The government is best that governs least.

2. Transcendentalists believed that all things (humans, God and nature) were connected. This term is also known as the .....

Correct Answer: A) Oversoul.

3. "Fast fashion" means there are ..... fashion "seasons" per year.

Correct Answer: B) 52.

4. In a political speech, which public figure would most appeal to an audience's sense of ethos (trust)?

Correct Answer: B) A president.

5. In the essay "Self-Reliance" Emerson expresses that many great people have .....

Correct Answer: A) Been misunderstood.

6. A famous female Transcendentalist is

Correct Answer: C) Margaret Fuller.

7. This type of irony is a contrast between what is expected to happen and what actually does happen.

Correct Answer: B) Situational Irony.

8. Transcendentalism prompted a shift in thought, emphasizing the following:

Correct Answer: C) Intuition and nature.

9. Laying out the simple facts of an argument is an appeal to .....

Correct Answer: C) Logos (evidence, logic).

10. What is the purpose of the repetition of the tide rising and falling in the poem?

Correct Answer: B) To imitate the repetition of the waves.

11. Fill in the blank:..... is greater than Society.

Correct Answer: B) Individualism.

12. Critical attributes of transcendentalism?

Correct Answer: B) Focus, social equality, patriotism, love of nature.

13. What must Emerson lose in order to become the transparent eyeball?

Correct Answer: B) His egotism.

14. What does Henry teach his cellmate?

Correct Answer: A) How to spell his name.

15. What is the movement in which people believed they could transcend or rise above material things?

Correct Answer: B) Transcendentalism.

16. Emerson's essay uses this device in Nature when he writes "nature is both a comic and a mourning piece."

Correct Answer: A) Juxtaposition (sharp contrast).

17. Who wrote Walden?

Correct Answer: D) Thoreau.

18. What does the loon symbolize in "Walden" ?

Correct Answer: C) The loon symbolizes Thoreau's pursuit of the truth.

19. "O Captain! My Captain!":To emphasize a sorrowful tone, Whitman contrasts the narrator's grief with the

Correct Answer: A) Joy of the crowd.

20. Referring to sad or tragic events in a piece of writing would be an appeal to .....

Correct Answer: B) Pathos (feeling, emotion).