This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Transcendentalism > Transcendentalism – Quiz 22 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Quiz 22 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. According to Emerson in "Self Reliance" how should we live our lives? A) By accepting that great men are always betrayed. B) By refusing to flee from a revolution. C) By accepting our circumstances and trusting ourselves. D) By trying to imitate the childlike geniuses of our age. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By accepting our circumstances and trusting ourselves. 2. Which Transcendentalist wrote the book 'Nature'? A) Walt Whitman. B) Emily Dickinson. C) Henry David Thoreau. D) Ralph Waldo Emerson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 3. Values feeling and intuition over reason A) Romanticism. B) Transcendentalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romanticism. 4. Transcendent A) Unnecessary, extra. B) Ridicule, contempt. C) Excelling, surpassing. D) Having influence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Excelling, surpassing. 5. Which poet purposefully used grammatical errors and irregular capitalization in their poetry? A) Walt Whitman. B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. C) Sylvia Plath. D) Emily Dickinson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Emily Dickinson. 6. What is the Oversoul? A) Shared universal soul of God, nature, and humanity. B) When the soul takes over the human. C) When the souls of God, nature, and humanity are separate. D) When people think with their soul rather than their heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shared universal soul of God, nature, and humanity. 7. In the following excerpt, what does "bread" mean? "Society is a joint-stock company in which the members agree for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity." A) A food rich in carbohydrates. B) A stock company. C) A type of currency or money. D) A school or college. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A type of currency or money. 8. Which of the following most accurately describes the impact that the gold rush had the west coast.? A) The gold rush had no effect on the west coast. B) The gold rush led to a dramatic increase in population. C) There was a sudden decrease in population in California. D) The gold rush led to financial gains for the majority of 49ers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The gold rush led to a dramatic increase in population. 9. When did Transcendentalism begin to emerge? A) In the late 1800s. B) In the late 1700s. C) In the early 1800s. D) It never emerged. E) In the early 1900s. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In the early 1800s. 10. Which characteristic of Transcendentalism means: "a focus on the connection between humans and the natural world (highlighting how we are all connected)" ? A) Nonconformity. B) Self-Reliance. C) Free Thought. D) Confidence. E) Importance of Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Importance of Nature. 11. Someone who loves to nag, criticize, and sneer is a(n) A) Usurer. B) Speculator. C) Censor. D) Usurper. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Censor. 12. In which city did Transcendentalism find its roots? A) Concord, MA. B) Washington D.C. C) London, England. D) Salem, Ma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Concord, MA. 13. What are the three types of appeals? A) Emotional, Logical, Ethical. B) Emotional, Physcial, Philosopichal. C) Factual, Logical, Knowledgeable. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Emotional, Logical, Ethical. 14. "The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws; just and unjust ..... One has a not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." Martin Luther King Jr. embodies this trait in this quote: A) Non-Conformity. B) Self-Reliance. C) Simplified Life. D) The Importance of Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Non-Conformity. 15. Which war did Thoreau write "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience" ? A) The French and Indian War. B) The Mexican American War. C) The Revolutionary War. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Mexican American War. 16. Group of authors who contemplated sin, the nature of human fallibility, and the intrinsic challenges of social reform A) The Dark Romantics. B) Essay. C) Free verse. D) Unitarianism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Dark Romantics. 17. Transcendentalists believed all people are inherently ..... (RI.10.10) A) Good. B) Evil. C) Neutral. D) Bad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Good. 18. In the poem "Song of Myself", in what line does Whitman's narrator most clearly demonstrate optimism? A) I celebrate myself, and sing myself. B) My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air. C) Creeds and schools in abeyance. D) I harbor for good or bad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I celebrate myself, and sing myself. 19. The author of two essays- "Nature" and "Self-Reliance, " who was fed up with society and conformity A) Nathaniel Hawthorne. B) Walt Whitman. C) Emily Dickinson. D) Ralph Waldo Emerson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 20. Which writer ignored meter, and focused on cadence '-the long easy sweep of sound that echoes the Bible and speeches of orators and preachers'? A) Thoreau. B) Dickinson. C) Emerson. D) Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Whitman. ← 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