This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Transcendentalism > Transcendentalism – Quiz 25 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Quiz 25 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does blank verse mean? A) A poem that consists of only quatrains. B) A poem that consist only ABBA rhyme scheme. C) A poem that has no rhyme scheme, but is written in iambic pentameter. D) A poem that has end rhyme and is written in iambic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A poem that has no rhyme scheme, but is written in iambic pentameter. 2. In Dead Poets Society, Mr. John Keating (played by Robin Williams), tells his students at a strict all-boys boarding school, Welton Academy, to rip the pages out of the front of a poetry textbook. Which of the following transcendentalist facets is best represented through his actions? (RI.10.10) A) Importance of Nature. B) Nonconformity. C) Self-Reliance. D) Confidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nonconformity. 3. "To be great is to be misunderstood" is an example of an A) Anaphora. B) Aphorism. C) Paradox. D) Compliment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aphorism. 4. "I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all:the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am a particle of God." A) Nature. B) Self Reliance. C) Walden. D) Civil Disobedience. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nature. 5. How did Dickinson's family go against her wishes after the died? A) They stopped giving candy to the children. B) They published her poems that she wanted destroyed. C) They threw away her white dress. D) They edited her poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They published her poems that she wanted destroyed. 6. When did Transcendentalism begin? A) 1945. B) 1776. C) 1830. D) 1865. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1830. 7. What is the meter in Thanatopsis? A) Iambic trimeter. B) Trochaic pentameter. C) Iambic pentameter. D) Trochaic trimeter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iambic pentameter. 8. Who was fired from their job as a journalist due to their opposition of slavery? A) Walt Whitman. B) Emily Dickinson. C) Gandhi. D) Waldo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Walt Whitman. 9. Which German philosopher did many ideals come from? A) Sigmund Freud. B) Franz Kafka. C) Gertrude Stein. D) Immanuel Kant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Immanuel Kant. 10. A style of writing that is characterized by fear, but also nature is A) Romanticism. B) Gothic. C) Transcendentalism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gothic. 11. True or False?In Romanticism, people felt that there must be more to life than logical, rational experience. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 12. Who is considered the founder of transcendentalism? A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. B) Henry David Thoreau. C) Margaret Fuller. D) John Locke. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 13. What did Emerson write that is considered a foundational work of Transcendental philosophy? A) Nature. B) Self-Reliance. C) Leaves of Grass. D) Civil Disobedience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Self-Reliance. 14. I love nature, snow, the outdoors and I have tried hard to ..... the benefits of enjoying Mother Earth to my kids. A) Manifest. B) Integrate. C) Impart. D) Admonish. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Impart. 15. "Society is a joint-stock company, in which members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater." What trademark of transcendentalism does this represent? A) Simplified Life. B) Self-Reliance. C) Non-Conformity. D) Intuition over Reason. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Non-Conformity. 16. Which American novelist is known for his tales of the American frontier, including The Last of the Mohicans? A) Walt Whitman. B) Herman Melville. C) James Fenimore Cooper. D) Washington Irving. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) James Fenimore Cooper. 17. Whitman shows the interconnectivity of life and a positive perspective on death through a study of A) Trees. B) Grass. C) Nature. D) Clouds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Grass. 18. Transcendentalists believed they could overcome what? A) The Physical World. B) Women. C) Small Pox. D) Government. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Physical World. 19. Which of the following definitions best represents the meaning of the word manifest? A) To make evident or certain by showing, displaying, or invoking. B) Adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard. C) An inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior. D) An effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To make evident or certain by showing, displaying, or invoking. 20. What is the main belief of transcendentalism? A) Individuals are greater than institutions. B) Logic is necessary for understanding. C) Churches are the only path to truth. D) Nature has no significance . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Individuals are greater than institutions. ← 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