This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Transcendentalism > Transcendentalism – Quiz 29 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Quiz 29 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Emerson states that the most sacred part of a person is- A) The work that they accomplish. B) The integrity of their individual mind. C) Their courage to be a nonconformist. D) The shadow that they cast on the world. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The integrity of their individual mind. 2. Finds beauty and truth in exotic locales and the inner world of the imagination A) Romanticism. B) Transcendentalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romanticism. 3. Transcendentalists believed that materialism and technology are ..... influences. A) Educational. B) Corrupting. C) Positive. D) Important. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Corrupting. 4. Who was the author of "Pilgrimage to Nonviolence?" A) Gandhi. B) Martin Luther King Jr. C) Thoreau. D) Emerson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Martin Luther King Jr. 5. True or False-A "foolish consistency, " according to Emerson, is the act of senselessly following others. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 6. "If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how men would believe and adore; a preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown!" This is an example of ..... A) Simplified Life. B) The Importance of Nature. C) Self-Reliance. D) Non-Conformity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Importance of Nature. 7. Which of the following most accurately describes Transcendentalist beliefs about God? A) They did not believe in God. B) They believed Catholicism was the only true religion. C) They believed that all people should attend church services every week. D) They believed people didn't have to follow the rules of organized religion to connect to God. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They believed people didn't have to follow the rules of organized religion to connect to God. 8. According to Transcendentalists, God can be found: A) Only in church. B) Anywhere. C) Only in nature. D) Nowhere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anywhere. 9. When did this movement begin? A) The 1700s. B) The 1800s. C) The 2000s. D) The 1900s. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The 1800s. 10. What is the best paraphrase for "Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string" (2)? A) Follow your instinct; it's where good art comes from. B) Follow your instinct; all people flourish when following this advice because it's such a steadfast fact of nature. C) Follow your instinct; everyone is depending on you. D) Follow your instinct; God is the iron string that connects us all. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Follow your instinct; all people flourish when following this advice because it's such a steadfast fact of nature. 11. People in the 19th century who created Transcendentalism A) Romantics. B) Transcendental Club. C) Capitalist Club. D) Industrialist Club. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Transcendental Club. 12. Which group believed in finding oneself in nature? A) Puritans. B) American Gothic. C) Transcendentalists. D) Colonialists. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transcendentalists. 13. When it comes to meter in poetry, what are the two important pieces of meter? ..... & ..... syllables. A) Stressed and more stressed. B) Stressed and unstressed. C) Iambic and diaambic. D) Penta and meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stressed and unstressed. 14. Transcendentalism encourages ..... (RI.10.10) A) Following the rules. B) Being like everyone else. C) Joining the majority opinion. D) Not conforming to what others do and say. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Not conforming to what others do and say. 15. Which sentence best expresses the central idea of the selection from "Self-Reliance" ? A) Meekness is the virtue that fosters self-awareness. B) Social customs serve a valuable purpose. C) Trust your instincts, regardless of what others do. D) Cruelty may be necessary to achieve one's goals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trust your instincts, regardless of what others do. 16. Which work (below) is described as " ..... a spiritual autobiography that tells the story of an enchanted observer who says who he is at every opportunity and claims what he loves by naming it'? A) Because I Could Not Stop for Death. B) Leaves of Grass. C) Nature. D) Hope is the Thing with Feathers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Leaves of Grass. 17. Rationalists believed in god A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 18. What did Henry David Thoreau write about in Walden? A) Natural history and philosophy. B) Religious institutions. C) Civil disobedience. D) Feminism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Natural history and philosophy. 19. "The introspection of an individual and how they are connected to their true self" . What tenet is defined above? A) Overthinking. B) Intense Individualism. C) Reverence for Nature. D) Presence of the Supernatural. E) Non-conformity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reverence for Nature. 20. What does the word reality mean? A) A thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning. B) Having knowledge of something; aware. C) Of or according to the rules of logic or formal argument. D) The world or the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them. 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