This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Transcendentalism > Transcendentalism – Quiz 31 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Quiz 31 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What part of speech does the following suffix change a word into:-ion A) Noun. B) Adjective. C) Adverb. D) Verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Noun. 2. "I heartily accept the motto, 'That government is best which governs least" ' This is an example of what transcendentalism trademark? A) Self-Reliance. B) Intuition over Reason. C) Simplified Life. D) The Importance of Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Self-Reliance. 3. Thoreau wrote "Civil Disobedience" as a protest against which war? A) Mexican War. B) American Revolution. C) Civil War. D) The War of 1812. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mexican War. 4. What decade do we associate with the beginning of Transcendentalism? A) 1790s. B) 1810s. C) 1830s. D) 1850s. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1830s. 5. Shuns the artificiality of civilization and seek unspoiled nature A) Romanticism. B) Transcendentalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romanticism. 6. How many stanzas are in "The Raven" ? A) 16. B) 17. C) 18. D) 19. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 18. 7. Chris McCandless decided to ..... A) Fight for environmental justice. B) Leave everything and go to North Dakota. C) Leave everything and go to Alaska. D) Fight for racial justice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Leave everything and go to Alaska. 8. Who was the father of Louisa May Alcott? A) Amos Bronson Alcott. B) Walt Whitman. C) Ralph Waldo Emerson. D) Henry David Thoreau. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Amos Bronson Alcott. 9. Which of the following is NOT a transcendental belief A) Non-conformity. B) Power the individual. C) Power of nature. D) Attached to material wealth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Attached to material wealth. 10. A comparison between two unalike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem A) Oxymoron. B) Assonance. C) Extended metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Extended metaphor. 11. Another word for 'hatred' is ..... A) Aversion. B) Admiration. C) Annihilation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aversion. 12. What does Emerson mean when he says "virtues are ..... rather the exception than the rule" (3)? A) Virtues are a second line of defense in human morality. B) Virtues are the same for all people. C) Virtues limit our desire/ability to act according to our own instincts. D) Virtues help keep the world in order. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Virtues limit our desire/ability to act according to our own instincts. 13. Identify the statement that offers the best paraphrase of this aphorism: "Trust thyself:Every heart vibrates to that iron string." A) If you trust yourself, you will come up against a steel wall. B) If you trust yourself, you will be broken as easily as a string. C) Trust yourself, and you will be strong. D) Trust yourself, and you will become a musician. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trust yourself, and you will be strong. 14. Which one of the following is NOT something people do for posterity? A) Take pictures. B) Make scrap books. C) Eat food. D) Write in a journal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eat food. 15. How did Transcendentalists believe that you could find divine truth? A) Intuitively. B) Through education. C) In poems. D) It is passed down from generations. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Intuitively. 16. One expedient for graduating high school is ..... A) Getting good grades. B) Eating ice cream. C) Making friends. D) Having fun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Getting good grades. 17. Materialism and technology are ..... influences. A) Educational. B) Corrupting. C) Positive. D) Important. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Corrupting. 18. Which writer focused on slant rhyme, also known as imperfect rhyme or off rhyme? A) Thoreau. B) Dickinson. C) Emerson. D) Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dickinson. 19. Why did the author go to the woods? A) To see if he could survive. B) To make friends. C) To experience nature and life at its roots. D) To observe birds. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To experience nature and life at its roots. 20. To believe in the ideals of the Transcendentalist was to believe in the notion/idea of A) Conformity. B) Self-motivation. C) Non-conformity. D) Dependence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Non-conformity. ← 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