This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Transcendentalism > Transcendentalism – Quiz 32 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Quiz 32 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The following excerpt includes lyrics from the song "Unstoppable" by Sia. Which of the following transcendentalist facets is best represented through the speaker's words? "I'm so powerful / I don't need batteries to play / I'm so confident / Yeah, I'm unstoppable today" (RI.10.1) A) Importance of Nature. B) Free Thought. C) Nonconformity. D) Confidence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Confidence. 2. What is the name of the pond that many Transcendentalists went to for inspiration? A) Hudson Pond. B) Walden Pond. C) Childers Pond. D) Mary's Pond. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Walden Pond. 3. What did Transcendentalists reject? A) Spirituality. B) Materialism. C) Consumerism. D) Individualism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Materialism. 4. EXTRA CREDIT:Why did Thoreau go to jail? A) He was bored. B) He robbed a stagecoach. C) He stopped paying taxes. D) He got in a bar fight. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He stopped paying taxes. 5. Thoreau compares the government to A) A heart. B) A dog. C) A puzzle. D) A machine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A machine. 6. Who is the author of Walden? A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. B) Henry David Thoreau. C) Kate Chopin. D) Walt Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Henry David Thoreau. 7. Based on all three of Whitman's poems, with which of the following statements would you most expect the author to agree? A) One can learn more from experiencing the natural world than from experiencing the guidance of people or society. B) Staying optimistic is a challenge, and the individual needs the support of friends and family. C) Man is perfect and self-sufficient as he is, and life only corrupts him. D) One must take both the good and bad as a natural part of life. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One can learn more from experiencing the natural world than from experiencing the guidance of people or society. 8. Which of the following quotes reveals the main reason for the surge in Irish immigrant to the US A) " I am exceedingly well pleased at coming to this land". B) "I would advise all of my friends to quit Ireland". C) "What your labor for is sweetned by happiness". D) "There is no failure in the potato crop". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "There is no failure in the potato crop". 9. An expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe a subject A) Free verse. B) Allegory. C) Allusion. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allegory. 10. A "redeemer" is someone who does something ..... A) Good. B) Bad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Good. 11. In the woods Emerson finds ..... A) Lots of fish & game. B) Trees one can talk to. C) A peaceful place to write. D) Love & the joy of youth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Love & the joy of youth. 12. To 'manifest' means to A) Make obvious or clear. B) Consume. C) Leave behind. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Make obvious or clear. 13. What did Transcendentalists believe was actually real? A) Individualistic thoughts. B) Beauty, truth, and spirituality. C) Material possessions. D) Consumerist desires. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beauty, truth, and spirituality. 14. Which characteristic of Transcendentalism means: "forming truth through your own logic, reason, and experience" ? A) Nonconformity. B) Self-Reliance. C) Free Thought. D) Confidence. E) Importance of Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free Thought. 15. "Imagination OVER....." A) Reason. B) Feeling. C) All. D) Individual. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reason. 16. Transcendentalist artist who drew birds A) William Lloyd Garrison. B) John James Audubon. C) Horace Mann. D) Dorthea Dix. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) John James Audubon. 17. People use their intuition to behold God's spirit revealed to them in nature or their own souls A) Romanticism. B) Transcendentalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Transcendentalism. 18. Continuing without pause or interruption A) Kindred. B) Incessant. C) Furnish. D) Penitent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Incessant. 19. "However mean your life is, meet it and live it:" A) Nature. B) Walden. C) Self Reliance. D) Thanatopsis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Walden. 20. True or False-The suffragists fought for the right for women to vote. Their hunger strikes were an act of civil disobedience. 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