This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Transcendentalism > Transcendentalism – Quiz 23 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Quiz 23 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. True or False:Emerson is one of the most quoted men of all time. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 2. Who was the leader of the group of American thinkers who wanted to bring transcendentalism to America? A) Margaret Fuller. B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. C) Abraham Lincoln. D) Thomas Jefferson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 3. Who wrote "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" ? A) Walt Whitman. B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. C) Henry David Thoreau. D) Margaret Fuller. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Walt Whitman. 4. Who lived with Ralph Waldo Emerson for three years? (RI.10.10) A) Robin Williams. B) Mahatma Gandhi. C) Martin Luther King Jr. D) Henry David Thoreau. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Henry David Thoreau. 5. According to transcendentalists, how can basic truths be found? A) Through intuition. B) Through logic. C) Through education. D) Through religious institutions . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Through intuition. 6. Another word for 'excursion' is ..... A) Outing. B) Exit. C) Hibernation. D) Diversion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Outing. 7. What does the word conscious 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: B) Having knowledge of something; aware. 8. "The watchful night-wind, as it went" represents which type of sound device? A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 9. "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide ..... " A) Nature. B) Self Reliance. C) Walden. D) Civil Disobedience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Self Reliance. 10. Which of the following is NOT considered an element of the transcendentalism movement? A) Solitude in nature can provide truth for the individual. B) The individual is at the center of the universe. C) Slavery is necessary for the development of the nation. D) The govt. should be viewed with caution. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Slavery is necessary for the development of the nation. 11. Which of the following is NOT a key principle of Transcendentalism? A) Civil Disobedience. B) Over-complication. C) Individualism. D) Oversoul. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Over-complication. 12. What was Thoreau's primary act of civil disobedience in his own life? A) Public rallies and protests. B) Refusal to pay taxes. C) Boycotting the cotton industry. D) Writing humorous satire against the government. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refusal to pay taxes. 13. The development of individualism, rebellion, and nature to embrace the natural world is ..... A) Transcendentalism. B) Romanticism. C) Colloquialism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Romanticism. 14. Which is the best definition of Transcendentalism? A) A culture obsessed with conformity and following the group. B) A philosophical movement with roots in Europe but which became uniquely American in the mid-1800s and was based on a search for ultimate reality through eight key principles. C) A specific kind of dental work. D) The act of following all of society's rules and worshipping the government. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A philosophical movement with roots in Europe but which became uniquely American in the mid-1800s and was based on a search for ultimate reality through eight key principles. 15. What is the story about a man making a deal with the devil for life-long materialism? A) The Devil and Tom Walker. B) "The Raven". C) The Fall of the House of Usher. D) Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Devil and Tom Walker. 16. What is the tone of Civil Disobedience? A) Happy and free. B) Sad and depressing. C) Demanding and persuasive. D) Inventive and inspiring. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Demanding and persuasive. 17. Ralph Waldo Emerson spoke on A) Self-reliance. B) Conforming. C) Relying on God. D) Obedience. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Self-reliance. 18. Which tenet of Transcendentalism fits BEST with this image? A) Connecting with Nature. B) Self-Reliance. C) Nonconformity. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connecting with Nature. 19. What is the type of figurative language used in the following line: "Sally sold seven seashells by the seashore." A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 20. Ethereal A) Related to the moon. B) Not earthly, spiritual. C) Without stopping. D) Strong dislike for something. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Not earthly, spiritual. ← 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