This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Transcendentalism > Transcendentalism – Quiz 20 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Quiz 20 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. According to Transcendentalism, conflicts should be solved with: A) Non-violence. B) Love. C) Violence. D) Therapy sessions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Non-violence. 2. Teachers work in the ..... of students strengths; whatever comes natural in them. A) Nurturing. B) Intuition. C) Peculiar. D) Inherent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nurturing. 3. Read the excerpt below by Walt Whitman. Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people. Which statement best summarizes the excerpt? A) The wealthy upper class in other countries gives each nation its vitality. B) The powerful upper class in the United States gives the nation its vitality. C) The common people in other countries give each nation its vitality. D) The common people in the United States give the nation its vitality. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The common people in the United States give the nation its vitality. 4. What did Thoreau believe about non-violent protest? A) It is necessary for progress. B) It is influenced by reason. C) It is irrelevant. D) It is ineffective. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is necessary for progress. 5. What does sublime mean? A) Green, slimy, gross as to cause fear. B) Excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe. C) Cold, hard, ugly as to evoke sadness. D) Soft, pink, happy as to inspire joy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe. 6. What does Thoreau assert is necessary for living? A) Thoreau suggests that fashionable clothing is a necessity. B) Thoreau states that high-end housing is a necessary for living. C) Thoreau suggests to only eat what you need, buy what you can afford, and live simply. D) Thoreau asserts that working for large corporations in order to make a sizable living is a necessity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thoreau suggests to only eat what you need, buy what you can afford, and live simply. 7. Which word means hostility and ill-treatment based on stereotyped beliefs? A) Melancholy. B) Persecution. C) Ostentatious. D) Prosecution. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Persecution. 8. What is the "singing" that the speaker hears in "I Hear America Singing" ? A) The language of different ethnic groups in the American melting pot. B) The songs from foreign lands brought to America by immigrants. C) The individuality of Americans in various walks of life. D) The poetry of Whitman and other American poets. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The individuality of Americans in various walks of life. 9. Another word for 'crudeness' is ..... A) Meanness. B) Gentleness. C) Loveliness. D) Power. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meanness. 10. Something that is lawful or fair is A) Just. B) Same. C) Unfair. D) Unjust. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Just. 11. Perennial A) Occurring twice a year. B) Occurring three times a year. C) Occurring yearly. D) Occuring four times a year. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Occurring yearly. 12. What word means giving or indicating a good chance of success; favorable? A) Speculating. B) Propitious. C) Ostentatious. D) Recreation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Propitious. 13. What did Emerson believe about the importance of the individual? A) It comes from physical nature. B) It is irrelevant. C) It comes from faith and country. D) It comes from reason. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It comes from physical nature. 14. Something that is unfair or unlawful is A) Just. B) Fair. C) Equal. D) Unjust. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Unjust. 15. What is a society? A) A person whose behavior or views do not conform to popular ideas or practices. B) The habit or principle of being independent and self-reliant. C) A person who conforms to accepted behavior or established practices. D) People living together in a more or less ordered community. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) People living together in a more or less ordered community. 16. In what region of the United States did Transcendentalist writers (mainly) live? A) The South. B) The Southwest. C) The Midwest. D) New England. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) New England. 17. Hudson River School artists were influenced by A) Success of social reform movement in the US. B) Migration of settlers to the U.S. frontier. C) Natural landscape of the United States. D) Environmental effects of U.S. industrialization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Natural landscape of the United States. 18. In the poem "Song of Myself", in what line does Whitman most clearly describe pleasure in a simple lifestyle? A) And what I assume you shall assume. B) I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. C) I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy. D) Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. 19. What is Emerson's attitude towards the natural world? A) The time spent on natural events are natural. B) Nature teems with positivity. C) Independence is the best form of life. D) Society is volatile. E) Individuals must depend on nature to thrive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nature teems with positivity. 20. Aobo's joyfulness ..... when he saw his grade. He did not know what it was; it was 100%. A) Transcended. B) Emerged. C) Exalted. D) Peculiar. 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