This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Transcendentalism > Transcendentalism – Quiz 13 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Quiz 13 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The ..... of the idea of hiking the John Muir Trail from Yosemite Valley to the top of Mt. Whitney came from reading a book title "Hiking your way to Health" by Seymour Butts. A) Admonishment. B) Manifestation. C) Conviction. D) Derision. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Manifestation. 2. What caused Emerson to become concerned with the individual? A) The advancement and takeover of technology. B) The solitude in nature. C) The congestion on the highways. D) The negative emotions of Gothicism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The advancement and takeover of technology. 3. True or False. Henry paid all of his taxes A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 4. Humans who study nature ..... A) Can never know everything about it. B) Will eventually learn all of its secrets. C) Have a better appreciation for all beauty. D) Understand how small humans' influence is. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Can never know everything about it. 5. What can you infer about the poet's attitude from these lines in "Song of Myself" ? These are really the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, / If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing, or next to nothing ..... A) Whitman believes that he can predict what people who read his poetry in the future will think. B) Whitman believes that his observations are, in some sense, universally shared. C) Whitman is pleased to acknowledge that he borrowed ideas in "Song of Myself from another poet. D) Whitman thinks that his poetry is worthless if readers disagree with him. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Whitman believes that his observations are, in some sense, universally shared. 6. Which of the following does Emerson not compare memory or consistency with? A) A corpse. B) To hobgoblin. C) A coat. D) A ship. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To hobgoblin. 7. What is different between how adults and children experience nature? A) Children still have innocence about them and can experience nature in a different way than adults. B) Children cannot truly understand the dangers that lurk in nature so they are happier. C) Adults have too many responsibilities to take time to enjoy nature. D) Adults are able to appreciate nature more since they understand more about life. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Children still have innocence about them and can experience nature in a different way than adults. 8. Who was the Transcendentalist who owned the land where Thoreau built his cabin? A) Edgar Allan Poe. B) Richard Wallace Everett. C) Emily Dickinson. D) Ralph Waldo Emerson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 9. True or False-Thoreau supported President Polk because he was an abolitionist. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 10. In "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls", the following line is an example of: "the sea in the darkness calls" A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 11. What aspects of Nature prove it to be a Romantic piece of literature? A) Its close look at industry. B) Its close look at nature. C) Its commentary on man and life. D) Its commentary on man and God. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Its close look at nature. 12. Reflects on nature's beauty as a path to spiritual and moral development A) Romanticism. B) Transcendentalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romanticism. 13. Most of Emily Dickinson's poem were based on ..... A) Life. B) Desperation. C) Death. D) Joy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Death. 14. Impart A) To reveal. B) Applicable, applying to a situation. C) Sound moral principles. D) Burden, hindrance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To reveal. 15. Which person is NOT associated with the Seneca Falls Convention in the women's reform movement? A) Elizabeth Cady Stanton. B) Julia Ward Howe. C) Susan B. Anthony. D) Lucretia Mott. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Julia Ward Howe. 16. According to the selection from Walden, what is Thoreau's main reason for moving to a cabin in the woods? A) He wants time to read works of philosophy. B) He wants to write a book about insects. C) He wants to learn how to farm and fish. D) He wants to live life as fully as possible. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He wants to live life as fully as possible. 17. True or False-Emerson would argue that fitting in is overrated. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 18. True or False:The Salem Witch trials (from The Crucible) took place almost 30 years after the Transcendentalist Movement started A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 19. Which of the following definitions best represents the meaning of the word potential? A) To make evident or certain by showing, displaying, or invoking. B) An effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning. C) Anything that pertains to a person's relationship with a nonmaterial life force or higher power. D) Possible, able to happen; something that can develop or become a reality. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Possible, able to happen; something that can develop or become a reality. 20. Which root is defined as to look at; to see beyond A) Sub. B) Specter. C) He, or, is. D) Spec. 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