This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Transcendentalism > Transcendentalism – Quiz 19 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Quiz 19 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who is considered the "father" of the American Transcendental movement? A) Henry David Thoreau. B) Walt Whitman. C) Ralph Waldo Emerson. D) Bronson Alcott. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 2. Self-reliance is put into practice by ..... A) Thinking for yourself, no matter what anyone else believes. B) Fighting for universal suffrage. C) Refusing to contradict yourself, even if you are wrong. D) Reading the teaching of Socrates, Jesus, Luther, and Copernicus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thinking for yourself, no matter what anyone else believes. 3. Which person was a transcendentalist writer from Brooklyn, New York, who celebrated the common worker? A) Walt Whitman. B) Herman Melville. C) Henry David Thoreau. D) Washington Irving. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Walt Whitman. 4. "Can there not be a government in which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?" This is an example of ..... A) Simplified Life. B) Non-Conformity. C) Self-Reliance. D) Intuition over Reason. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Intuition over Reason. 5. Which statement best describes the beliefs held by nativists in the U.S. in the mid 1800's A) Nativists welcomed immigrants and respected their work ethic. B) Nativists had no true opinion on the arrival of immigrants to the US. C) Nativists were opposed to immigrants because of their views on slavery. D) Nativists were worried that immigrants would take American jobs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nativists were worried that immigrants would take American jobs. 6. Define:To Change your Thoughts A) Panthesist. B) Religion. C) Transcendentalism. D) Spirituality. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transcendentalism. 7. Which of the following represents the best definition of The Second Great Awakening? A) Salvation can only be achieved through a personal belief in Jesus Christ in some cases. B) People demonstrate true faith by leading a transformed life and by performing good deeds. C) Religion is the only way to solve the world's problems. D) The idea of including all people in the religious experience, not just rich people. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) People demonstrate true faith by leading a transformed life and by performing good deeds. 8. Into the Wild is a/an A) Autobiography (a book someone writes about themselves). B) Biography (a book someone writes about someone else). C) Novel (a made-up story). D) Historical fiction (a made-up story about a specific time period). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biography (a book someone writes about someone else). 9. T or F:Romantics, Dark Romantics, and Transcendentalists all valued city life. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 10. Which of these is NOT a characteristic of Romanticism? A) Rebellion. B) Breaking Convention. C) Power of the Senses. D) Use of Satire. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Use of Satire. 11. What does the word intuition mean? A) A thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning. B) Having knowledge of something; aware. C) Of or according to the rules of logic or formal argument. D) The world or the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning. 12. Thoreau's purpose in Walden:The Ponds is to describe his reasons for visiting Walden Pond and its surroundings. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. Which characteristic of Transcendentalism means "failure or refusal to conform to a prevailing practice or rule?" (RI.9-10.4) A) Nonconformity. B) Self-Reliance. C) Free Thought. D) Confidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nonconformity. 14. What is the noun form of perturbed? A) Perturb. B) Purturbated. C) Perturbist. D) Perturbation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Perturbation. 15. What or who does Bryant call "She" in Thanatopsis? A) Holy Spirit. B) The land. C) The Ocean. D) Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nature. 16. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach ..... " A) Nature. B) Self Reliance. C) Walden. D) Civil Disobedience. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Walden. 17. Gothic plot structures include A) Telling you when the monster or protagonist is going to appear. B) Ominous implications preceding dark events. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ominous implications preceding dark events. 18. Who were influenced by Thoreau's ideas and actions? A) Martin Luther King Jr. B) Cesar Chavez. C) Mohandas K. Gandhi. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 19. What did Emerson urge people to use to guide their lives? A) Reason. B) Inner light. C) Physical nature. D) Faith. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inner light. 20. 'Predominant' means ..... A) Main or primary. B) Prehistoric. C) Prequel. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Main or primary. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesTranscendentalism Quiz 1Transcendentalism Quiz 2Transcendentalism Quiz 3Transcendentalism Quiz 4Transcendentalism Quiz 5Transcendentalism Quiz 6Transcendentalism Quiz 7Transcendentalism Quiz 8Transcendentalism Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books