This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Transcendentalism > Transcendentalism – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Quiz 1 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Religious movement that led to social reforms A) Temperance. B) 2nd Great Awakening. C) Suffrage. D) Transcendentalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2nd Great Awakening. 2. In the poem "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer", what Transcendental principle is most clearly represented? A) Intuition. B) Simple lifestyle. C) Oversoul. D) Civil Disobedience. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Intuition. 3. Which of the following believed religious leaders should also be government leaders? A) Native American. B) Puritan. C) Colonial. D) Transcendentalists. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Puritan. 4. Giving priority to one's own goals over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications A) Society. B) Selfishness. C) Individualism. D) Transcendentalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Individualism. 5. Magazines and News papers were new forms of writings in rationalism A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 6. What is Emerson's overall opinion of society? A) Society helps people achieve their potential. B) We must accept society's rules whether we agree with them or not. C) Society is all accepting force that denies no one. D) Society conspires to deny people their individual freedoms. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Society conspires to deny people their individual freedoms. 7. This person wrote in free verse A) Henry. B) Emily Dickinson. C) MLK Jr. D) Walt Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Walt Whitman. 8. Emerson says nature wears the colors of ..... A) Autumn. B) Man's spirit. C) Childhood. D) Vegetables. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Man's spirit. 9. How does the narrator view death in "Thanatopsis?" A) A process that requires a lot of pain and suffering. B) A process that evokes fear which one should try to avoid. C) A process that should be trusted and viewed as beautiful. D) A process that makes you excited and happy about death. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A process that should be trusted and viewed as beautiful. 10. Which sentence is correctly punctuated? A) Oliver Twist, which was Dickens's second novel, is a classic. B) Oliver Twist which was Dickens's second novel is a classic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oliver Twist, which was Dickens's second novel, is a classic. 11. (Fill in the blank) A rhetorical device is ..... used to persuade. A) Punctuation. B) Capitalization. C) ANYTHING. D) Literary device. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) ANYTHING. 12. Self reliance and individualism must outweigh external authority A) Romanticism. B) Transcendentalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Transcendentalism. 13. According to the author, what can the poet's eye do when he or she looks at nature? A) The poet's eye can see things that only poets can see. B) The poet's eye is a window into the soul of nature. C) The poet's eye may take everything it sees and write poetry. D) The poet's eye can take everything it sees and integrate that visage into something tangible and beautiful. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The poet's eye can take everything it sees and integrate that visage into something tangible and beautiful. 14. What is a short passage from a longer piece of writing? A) Essay. B) Excerpt. C) Poem. D) Short story. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Excerpt. 15. Which characteristic of Transcendentalism means "forming truth through your own logic, reason, and experiences?" (RI.9-10.4) A) Nonconformity. B) Self-Reliance. C) Free Thought. D) Confidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free Thought. 16. A figure of speech that references another work, well-known person, or famous event A) Rhetorical device. B) Personification. C) Allusion. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 17. What did the transcendentalists believe? A) Reason is more important than emotion. B) There is no control over your life. C) Emotion is more important than reason. D) Faith and country control your life. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Emotion is more important than reason. 18. A philosophy pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 1830's and 1840's, in which each person has direct communication with God and Nature, and there is no need for organized churches. It incorporated the ideas that mind goes beyond matter, intuition is valuable, that each soul is part of the Great Spirit, and each person is part of a reality where only the invisible is truly real. Promoted individualism, self-reliance, and freedom from social constraints, and emphasized emotions. A) Realism. B) Transcendentalism. C) Racism. D) Puritanism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Transcendentalism. 19. "Word Choice" is the definition of ..... A) Diction. B) Syntax. C) Tone. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diction. 20. Where did the Transcendentalism movement start? A) Asia. B) The United States of America. C) Europe. D) Australia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Europe. Next →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesTranscendentalism Quiz 2Transcendentalism Quiz 3Transcendentalism Quiz 4Transcendentalism Quiz 5Transcendentalism Quiz 6Transcendentalism Quiz 7Transcendentalism Quiz 8Transcendentalism Quiz 9Transcendentalism Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books