This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Transcendentalism > Transcendentalism – Quiz 26 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Quiz 26 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following definitions best represents the meaning of the word abolition? A) An effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning. B) An inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior. C) The right to vote in political elections. D) The action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution. 2. In transcendentalism, what or who is most important? A) Man or society. B) Books or science. C) God or the Bible. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Man or society. 3. Which of the following did Chris NOT do after graduating from university? A) Burned the cash in his wallet. B) Wrote a letter to his family explaining his plans. C) Donated all his money to charity. D) Abandoned his car and possessions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wrote a letter to his family explaining his plans. 4. What is the third basic premise of Transcendentalism? A) Nature symbolizes the spirit, and the world is good. B) Nature is the center of the universe. C) The world is a bad place and only nature makes it good. D) Knowledge of nature is the only knowledge that matters. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nature symbolizes the spirit, and the world is good. 5. Why does Emerson compare society to a joint-stock company? A) He wants to show how much people give up and how much society gives in return. B) He wants to show what people can gain by giving up individualism for the good of the community. C) He wants to show how much money rules our society and it's members. D) He wants to show how much people give up in order to fit in with society's standards. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He wants to show how much people give up in order to fit in with society's standards. 6. Which of these statements best reflects Thoreau's philosophy as expressed in Walden A) Living a simple life close to nature lets a person concentrate on important things. B) Humans are complex creatures. C) Building a cabin in the woods is practical and inexpensive. D) Wealth is desirable, but spiritual happiness is also important. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Living a simple life close to nature lets a person concentrate on important things. 7. How many tenets are there? A) 4. B) 10. C) 7. D) 15. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 10. 8. Who was Emerson's student? A) Bronson Alcott. B) Henry David Thoreau. C) Walt Whitman. D) Immanuel Kant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Henry David Thoreau. 9. What does mean to be self-reliant? A) To follow society's norms. B) To only listen to your friends advice. C) To have confidence in oneself and intuition. D) To only listen to your parents. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To have confidence in oneself and intuition. 10. Which of Thoreau's philosophical assumptions is implicit in this statement from Walden? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. A) People should have a few close friends. B) People should appreciate music. C) People should behave as others do. D) People should live as individuals. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) People should live as individuals. 11. Transcendentalists valued the spiritual importance of ..... A) Nature. B) Church. C) Traveling. D) Laws. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nature. 12. Rationalist writers still saw man as inherently evil who needed to repent A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. Which of the following quotes from Civil Disobedience represents the theme of nature? A) "Why does it not encourage its citizens to be on alert to point out is faults, and do better than it would have them?". B) "A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistable when it clogs by its whole weight.". C) "Let your life be a counter-friction to the machine.". D) "If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.". 14. The founder of the Transcendentalism Movement was? A) Henry Waldo Emerson. B) Henry David Thoreau. C) Ralph David Abernathy. D) Ralph Waldo Emerson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 15. "I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, ..... " A) Nature. B) Self Reliance. C) Walden. D) The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Walden. 16. Which of the following statements best characterizes the Romantics? A) The Romantics believed that science, and the language of science were the ways to truth. B) The Romantics believed that people should rely on the authority and ideas of the past to arrive at truth. C) The Romantics believed intuition and emotion (imagination) were superior to reason. D) The Romantics focused their writings on the daily life and struggles of the new workers of the Industrial Revolution in an almost photographic way. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Romantics believed intuition and emotion (imagination) were superior to reason. 17. What was the central idea of Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance? A) Emerson's central idea was that he believed in the Over-Soul and you will have personal and spiritual freedom. B) In the text, Emerson introduces the idea that One must rely on their inner circle in order to find happiness within themselves. C) The central idea in the text clearly states that if you trust your abilities, then you will find success and love in every aspect of daily life. D) Emerson introduces the central idea that intellectual, spiritual, and material nourishment in one's life come through self-reliance or one's own efforts and abilities. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Emerson introduces the central idea that intellectual, spiritual, and material nourishment in one's life come through self-reliance or one's own efforts and abilities. 18. What was the whole reason for civil disobedience? A) Most societal laws inhibit greater moral freedom. B) The simpler your life, the better. C) You can not rely on others to make your decisions. D) Most societal laws increase moral freedom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Most societal laws inhibit greater moral freedom. 19. They valued the spiritual importance of ..... A) Nature. B) Church. C) Priests. D) Cooking. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nature. 20. In "Nature, " what element of nature does Emerson find particularly effective in inspiring deep respect and a sense of solitude? A) The stars. B) The flowers. C) The woodlands. D) The mountains. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The stars. ← 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