Transcendentalism Quiz 34 (9 MCQs)

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1. Transcendentalist believed that people can trust themselves to be their own authority on what is right.

Correct Answer: A) True.

2. What did Thoreau believe about the law?

Correct Answer: A) Men have to make the law.

3. What is Emerson's opinion of society?

Correct Answer: D) Society conspires to deny people their individual freedoms.

4. What period dominated literature and life before Transcendentalism?

Correct Answer: B) Puritan.

5. Which of the following movements or groups of people is best described as shifting from religion to patriotism?

Correct Answer: A) Enlightenment.

6. "The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common"

Correct Answer: D) True genius is seeing extravagance in every day things.

7. What is intense individualism?

Correct Answer: C) An idea in which an individual shows strong reliance to their own strengths.

8. "Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

Correct Answer: B) Walden.

9. Which best describes the work of James Fenimore Cooper?

Correct Answer: D) He wrote novels that celebrated American Indian culture.