This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Transcendentalism > Transcendentalism Literature – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 4 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Transcendentalism is based on a theory of the relationship of all the following except A) Nature. B) Divine Providence. C) Man. D) God. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Divine Providence. 2. Name the text from which the following quote originates: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds ..... " A) "Nature". B) "Self-Reliance". C) "Walden". D) "Civil Disobedience". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "Self-Reliance". 3. If you were writing a rhetorical precis, where would you put this sentence? She establishes a confident tone for the group of women's rights activists at the Seneca Falls Convention. A) Sentence 1. B) Sentence 2. C) Sentence 3. D) Sentence 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sentence 4. 4. This is the literary device that creates the foundation for the story "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" (529). A) Paradox. B) Irony. C) Imagery. D) Transcendentalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irony. 5. What was a major theme of living at Walden cabin? A) Simplify. B) Complicate. C) Live well. D) Ignore people. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simplify. 6. Which mood is common in Dark Romantic literature? A) Fear. B) Horror. C) Depression. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 7. VocabularyDefinition:one who does not follow generally accepted beliefs, customs, or practices A) Absolve. B) Nonconformist. C) Decorum. D) Perpetual. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nonconformist. 8. From which essay does the following quote originate: "To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society." A) "Nature". B) "Self-Reliance". C) "Walden". D) "Civil Disobedience". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Nature". 9. He is considered the father of American Gothic literature? A) Whitman. B) Thoreau. C) King. D) Poe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poe. 10. What were dirty, unsafe housing structures in which the cities' poor were forced to live? A) Tenements. B) Transcendentalism. C) Domes. D) Settlement houses. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tenements. 11. Who was the father of the Transcendentalist movement? A) Emily Dickinson. B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. C) Walt Whitman. D) Laronya' Williams. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 12. Which Transcendentalist essay by Emerson urged people to have confidence in their own genius and not conform to the will of society? A) Walden. B) Civil Disobedience. C) Self-Reliance. D) Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Self-Reliance. 13. Who was Henry David Thoreau? A) He was a writer against the government. B) He led the transcendentalist movement. C) He stressed the importance of community. D) He encouraged unquestioning obedience to the government. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was a writer against the government. 14. Which is not a tenent of Transcendentalism? A) The individual is paramount. B) Major inspiration included nature and intuition. C) The rational is valued over the spiritual. D) God is present in every aspect of nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The rational is valued over the spiritual. 15. Reliance on one's own powers and resources rather than those of others. A) Self Actualization. B) Self Esteem. C) Self Reliance. D) Self Fulfillemt. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Self Reliance. 16. Who are people who opposed immigration? A) Abolitionists. B) Nativists. C) Tenements. D) Middle class. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nativists. 17. How does Henry explain transcendentalism to Ellen? A) He compares it to touching the bottom of the lake. B) He compares it to flying like birds. C) He compares it to swimming like a fish. D) He compares it to playing a musical instrument. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He compares it to touching the bottom of the lake. 18. Thoreau examines his fellow man in Walden and finds him? A) Happy. B) Sad. C) Fulfilled. D) Lacking. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lacking. 19. At the beginning of Walden, Thoreau allows himself to do this through his imagination ..... A) Communicate with nature. B) Buy all the farms in the area. C) Talk to the farmer's wife. D) Build a cabin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Buy all the farms in the area. 20. The transparent eyball is related to the idea that A) All things are connected, people, nature and God. B) Nature makes you forget your troubles. C) God speaks through nature. D) Nature makes you feel young and vibrant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All things are connected, people, nature and God. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesTranscendentalism Literature Quiz 1Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 2Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 3Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 5Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 6Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 7Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 8Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 9Transcendentalism Literature Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books