This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Transcendentalism > Transcendentalism – Quiz 24 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Quiz 24 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Valentina's hard work ..... her family's way of helping her grow as a great student. It is clear that her family guided her. A) Exalted. B) Inherent. C) Peculiar. D) Intuition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exalted. 2. Which of the following movements or groups of people used the Bible as a model for their writing and every day life? A) Colonialists. B) Native Americans. C) Transcendentalists. D) Puritans. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Puritans. 3. Transcendentalism had ..... involved in the movement. A) The same meaning for every person involved. B) Different meanings for every person involved. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Different meanings for every person involved. 4. Excellence or beauty to inspire great admiration is ..... A) Gothic. B) Satire. C) Sublime. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sublime. 5. "The rooms were whitewashed once a month; at this one, at least, was the whitest, most simply furnished, and probably the neatest apartment in the town." The way that Thoreau describes his prison cell is an example of ..... A) Self-Reliance. B) Non-Conformity. C) Simplified Life. D) Intuition over Reason. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simplified Life. 6. What artist gained importance during this movement? A) Painters. B) Designers. C) Novelists. D) Poets. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poets. 7. "Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!" A) Self Reliance. B) Walden. C) Thanatopsis. D) Civil Disobedience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Walden. 8. The same sound at the beginning of a line of words is ..... A) Sublime. B) Tone. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 9. What do transcendentalists believe that humans are most connected to? A) Nature. B) Animals. C) Machines. D) Literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nature. 10. 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, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. What is the Title of this piece by Thoreau, pulled from "Walden" A) Where I Lived, and What I Lived For. B) Solitude. C) Spring. D) Civil Disobedience. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Where I Lived, and What I Lived For. 11. What is the point of the comparison Emerson makes between the kernel of corn and human effort? A) You must work hard to nurture vegetable crops, just as you must work hard to achieve your potential. B) People cannot survive without food, so we must all work very hard. C) As corn grows slowly, so it takes a long time for people to realize their potential. D) A kernel of corn is very small and hard to see. In a similar way, our potential is often hidden and hard to see. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) You must work hard to nurture vegetable crops, just as you must work hard to achieve your potential. 12. Fill in the blank: ..... OVER Institution A) Feeling. B) Reason. C) All. D) Individualism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Individualism. 13. Which writer is our most local (from Long Island, NY, lived in Brooklyn, Camden, etc.)? A) Thoreau. B) Dickinson. C) Emerson. D) Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Whitman. 14. A 'swath' is ..... A) A row of cut grain or grass left by a scythe or mowing machine. B) A wave breaking in the ocean. C) The froth on top of a cappuccino. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A row of cut grain or grass left by a scythe or mowing machine. 15. This Transcendentalist wrote poetry inspired by their Puritan upbringing and their poetry was published posthumously A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. B) Walt Whitman. C) Emily Dickinson. D) Margaret Fuller. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Emily Dickinson. 16. According to Thoreau we should ..... A) Make sure that we always fully support our government. B) Make sure we do not indirectly support unjust governments. C) Remain peaceful as we tolerate unjust governments. D) Always remain loyal and fight for our governments. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Make sure we do not indirectly support unjust governments. 17. In what area of the country was this movement centered? A) Midwest. B) Deep South. C) West Coast. D) New England. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) New England. 18. Which word below doesn't align with the suffix-er, -or, -ist? A) Doctor. B) Florist. C) Seer. D) Power. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Power. 19. This author was not into the poetic verse, and instead preferred to contribute to the genre with his authorship of novels like The Scarlet Letter or short stories like "The Minister's Black Veil." A) Walt Whitman. B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. C) Nathaniel Hawthorne. D) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nathaniel Hawthorne. 20. Which is NOT a philosophy of Transcendentalism? A) People should spend more time in thought than in worship. B) Nature is a mirror of human life. C) People are inherently flawed and powerless. D) Individuals are more powerful than political and religious institutions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) People are inherently flawed and powerless. ← 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