This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Transcendentalism > Transcendentalism – Quiz 28 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Quiz 28 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. An important transcendentalist was ..... A) Sojourner Truth. B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. C) John James Audubon. D) George Whitfield. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 2. Who and what text said "To be great is to be misunderstood." A) Thoreau & Civil Disobedience. B) Bryant & "Thanatopsis". C) Emerson & Nature. D) Emerson & Self-Reliance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Emerson & Self-Reliance. 3. What did Emerson encourage through his writing and lecturing? A) Materialism. B) Individualism. C) Spirituality. D) Conformity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Individualism. 4. Ralph Waldo Emerson gave ..... credit for popularizing the term "transcendentalism." A) Jean paul Sartre. B) Immanuel Kant. C) Walt Whitman. D) Henry David Thoreau. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Immanuel Kant. 5. What did Plato argue about the physical world? A) It is the only reality. B) It contains perfect forms of ideals. C) It is ever-changing. D) It is an illusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It contains perfect forms of ideals. 6. What transcendental idea is found in Nature? A) Interconnectedness with nature. B) Solitude. C) Self-Reliance. D) Nonconformity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Interconnectedness with nature. 7. To 'impart' means to ..... A) Communicate. B) Hide. C) Take apart. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Communicate. 8. "Sanctity" would BEST be associated with which of the following: A) A convenience store. B) A park. C) A religious place or concept. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A religious place or concept. 9. What does the author suggest about comparing yourself to others? A) Do not do it. B) It is a waste of time. C) It makes you worry for nothing. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 10. Which of these suggests a meaning for Emerson's words from Nature: "In the woods is perpetual youth" ? A) People feel refreshed and young in the woods. B) The woods attracts those who don't like to grow up. C) Only young people like to walk in the woods. D) The natural world is found only in the woods. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) People feel refreshed and young in the woods. 11. In which of the following is a character having an external conflict? A) She feels guilty after turning in a classmate for cheating. B) He is in danger of losing his starting position on the team because of the new player. C) She struggles to stay awake during the lecture. D) He wills himself to keep running until he crosses the finishes line. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He is in danger of losing his starting position on the team because of the new player. 12. The transcendentalists were atheists. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 13. "Masses and moving shapes of shade, -" A) Old Ironsides. B) The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls. C) Thanatopsis. D) Paul Revere's Ride. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paul Revere's Ride. 14. What do the writings of transcendentalists say is the way to discover spirituality? A) Go to church. B) Connect to nature and look within yourself. C) Follow the laws of the land. D) Listen to music and read poems. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connect to nature and look within yourself. 15. Father of Transcendentalism A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. B) Walt Whitman. C) Henry David Thoreau. D) Walden. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. 16. Which of the following statements best describes the philosophy of Transcendentalism? A) A spiritual connection to nature, and an inherent belief in the positive power of the individual. B) A spiritual connection to nature, and an inherent mistrust in the power of the individual. C) A religious zeal for nature and a belief in the power of organized religion. D) A spiritual connection to both nature and the study of history. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A spiritual connection to nature, and an inherent belief in the positive power of the individual. 17. Escapism and interest in external nature are examples of which literary movement? A) Transcendentalism. B) Romanticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transcendentalism. 18. Old Chicago is our favorite restaurant which is why we go there often. A) No commas. B) Comma after favorite. C) Comma after restaurant. D) Comma after why. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Comma after restaurant. 19. A community of people who share a common culture A) Individual. B) Society. C) Group. D) School. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Society. 20. Transcendentalists believed in communing with what? A) All of these. B) Government. C) Industrial Cities. D) Nature. 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