This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Transcendentalism > Transcendentalism – Quiz 27 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Quiz 27 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in the year A) 1809. B) 1882. C) 1803. D) 1810. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1803. 2. Describe "Walden" Cabin A) Big, modern, stylish. B) Small, modern, useful. C) Medium, old school, vintage. D) Small, old school, vintage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Small, old school, vintage. 3. Which of the following describes Transcendentalist beliefs about how people should act? A) A person must try to emulate the thoughts and behaviors of the ancient Greeks and Romans. B) A person must strive to be a fully unique individual. C) A person must always question whether their actions best serve the needs of the community. D) People who do not follow social etiquette should be shunned from polite society. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A person must strive to be a fully unique individual. 4. Romanticism is the name for the literary period that followed ..... A) Transcendentalism. B) The Age of Reason. C) Puritanism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Age of Reason. 5. Emily Dickinson ..... A) Was famous before her death. B) Was famous after her death. C) Has never been famous. D) Had an ordinary life. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Was famous after her death. 6. How important is solitude at Walden cabin? A) Very important-to learn and observe. B) Somewhat important-to listen and grow. C) Not important-people can not survive without others. D) Pointless-easier to learn from others. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Very important-to learn and observe. 7. Which of the following stylistic elements appears in all of Emily Dickinson's poems? A) The lack of title. B) The use of dashes. C) The use of eccentric capitalization. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 8. Read the following:The players who are wearing the red uniforms are winning the game. Which answer choice correctly identifies the correct clause with the proper explanation? A) Nonrestrictive clause:If we take out the clause, the original intent of the sentence doesn't change. The information is non essential. B) Restrictive clause:If we take out the clause, we won't know which players are winning the game. The information is essential. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Restrictive clause:If we take out the clause, we won't know which players are winning the game. The information is essential. 9. All of these are core ideas of transcendentalism EXCEPT A) There is a true reality that "transcends" the natural world. B) Nature is a doorway to the spiritual world. C) To be accepted as a transcendental, you have to live amongst nature and leave all worldly possessions behind. D) People will find truth within themselves, not through logic, religion or the senses. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To be accepted as a transcendental, you have to live amongst nature and leave all worldly possessions behind. 10. Trancendentalism is a reformed version of the Unitarian religion. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 11. According to Transcendentalists, all people are born good. What makes people bad? A) Religion. B) College. C) Society. D) Matthew McConaughey. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Society. 12. What Transcendentalist idea is the main part of Whitman's answer? A) Simplicity. B) Nature. C) Civil Disobedience. D) Individualism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Individualism. 13. Which Transcendentalist founded the women's rights movement in America? A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. B) Elizabeth Palmer Peabody. C) Amos Bronson Alcott. D) Margaret Fuller. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Margaret Fuller. 14. Opposed to optimistic views of Transcendentalism A) Romanticism. B) Transcendentalism. C) Dark Romanticism. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dark Romanticism. 15. To do something 'hastily' means to do it ..... A) Quickly. B) Carefully. C) Exactly. D) Slowly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quickly. 16. What did Thoreau believe about slavery? A) It was necessary for progress. B) It was irrelevant. C) It was wrong. D) It was controlled by reason. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It was wrong. 17. Who was one of the main people that led the Transcendentalist movement? A) Emily Dickinson. B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. C) Walt Whitman. D) Laronya' Williams. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 18. Movement that taught that man could get closer to God through nature A) Transcendentalism. B) 2nd Great Awakening. C) Temperance. D) Abolitionism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transcendentalism. 19. According to Transcendentalists, what did they believe permeated all living things? A) Individualistic thoughts. B) Materialistic desires. C) Divine spirit. D) Consumerist tendencies. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Divine spirit. 20. The following quote states a central idea of Emerson's beliefs: "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist ..... Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind." A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. ← 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