Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 3 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which poem was not Anti-Transcendentalist?

Correct Answer: B) Common Sense-Thomas Paine.

2. Transcendentalists believe that ....., humanity, and nature share a universal soul.

Correct Answer: A) God.

3. Who is Henry's brother?

Correct Answer: A) John.

4. What does this picture represent?

Correct Answer: D) Self-reliance.

5. Transcendentalism is a 19th-century school of American religious and philosophical thought that combined respect for ..... with .....

Correct Answer: B) Nature; self-sufficiency.

6. This is a statement that seems to contradict itself but may nevertheless suggest an important truth.

Correct Answer: D) Paradox.

7. Who does Henry David Thoreau admire most?

Correct Answer: D) Emerson.

8. Transcendentalists value non-conformity. What does that mean?

Correct Answer: D) People should be their true self at all times.

9. Define:Arrangement of words in a sentence

Correct Answer: D) Syntax.

10. Many Transcendentalists were:

Correct Answer: D) Feminists and abolitionists.

11. "To The Virgins to Make Much of Time":And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying." What does this imagery illustrate?

Correct Answer: B) Life is short.

12. What does Thoreau call for, in terms of government, at the conclusion of this selection from "Civil Disobedience" ?

Correct Answer: A) A better government.

13. VocabularyDefinition:rightness, suitability

Correct Answer: A) Decorum.

14. Early Transcendentalists gathered to create .....

Correct Answer: A) The Transcendentalist Club.

15. Another tenet of Transcendentalist is the idea that you should be able to think for yourself and challenge beliefs.

Correct Answer: D) Free Thought.

16. Emerson: "There is a time in every man's education whe he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is ....."

Correct Answer: B) Suicide.

17. According to Emerson in 'Nature' "If a man would be alone, let him look at the ..... "

Correct Answer: B) Stars.

18. "Self-Reliance":What is the aversion of conformity?

Correct Answer: C) Self-reliance.

19. Which element of Transcendentalism did Thoreau employ by creating his Walden "experiment" ?

Correct Answer: D) Nature writing.

20. A manifesto is

Correct Answer: B) The belief system of a group.