This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Transcendentalism > Transcendentalism – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Quiz 4 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Summiting Anderson Peak and seeing the perfect snowboarding line down to the bottom left me with ..... feelings of love for the outdoors and nature. A) Manifestation. B) Pertinent. C) Encumbering. D) Sublime. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sublime. 2. What did Emerson add his voice to as a social cause? A) Women's rights movement. B) Materialism. C) Consumerism. D) Individualism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Women's rights movement. 3. Thoreau disagreed with A) The abolition of slavery. B) The Mexican-American War. C) Paying taxes. D) The right for women to vote. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Mexican-American War. 4. One of the purposes of the Transcendental movement was to: A) Create a national identity separate from England. B) Stop immigration from happening. C) Understand the lives of Americans. D) Figure out how to further the medical profession. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Create a national identity separate from England. 5. Not everyone uses his or her ..... to make decisions. Some people are rational; no emotions, just facts. A) Transcend. B) Peculiar. C) Nurture. D) Intuition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Intuition. 6. Who was the writer that self-published his greatest work and kept revising it and republishing (nine editions of the same book!)? A) Thoreau. B) Dickinson. C) Emerson. D) Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Whitman. 7. Identify the type of clause:The soft cartilage that makes up sharks' skeletons dissolves over time. A) Nonrestrictive. B) Restrictive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Restrictive. 8. Which of the following definitions best represents the meaning of the word spirituality? A) Anything that pertains to a person's relationship with a nonmaterial life force or higher power. B) Adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard. C) An inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior. D) To make evident or certain by showing, displaying, or invoking. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anything that pertains to a person's relationship with a nonmaterial life force or higher power. 9. What part of speech is the word ostentatious? A) Adjective. B) Adverb. C) Noun. D) Verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adjective. 10. Whitman is afraid of death A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 11. What is a naturalist? A) Literature that emphasizes a specific geographic setting and makes use of the speech and manners of the people that live in that region. B) Thinkers who rely heavily on the emerging scientific disciplines of psychology and sociology. C) Thinkers who juxtapose human illusions with the indifference of the universe. D) To place side by side; juxtapose unexpected combinations of colors, shapes, and ideas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thinkers who rely heavily on the emerging scientific disciplines of psychology and sociology. 12. Which of the following best reflects Henry David Thoreau's transcendentalists beliefs A) His refusal to pay taxes because of his beliefs about the Mexican American War. B) His paintings of American birds. C) His affliation with president Polk. D) His decision to pay taxes as a sign of respect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His refusal to pay taxes because of his beliefs about the Mexican American War. 13. What decade(s) did the transcendentalism movement occur? A) 1650-1690. B) 1960-1980. C) Too long ago to count. D) 1830-1850. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1830-1850. 14. How did the African-American Methodist Episcopal church respond to slavery? A) It supported the institution of slavery. B) It decided to remain neutral on the issue of slavery. C) It became a political voice against slavery for free blacks in the North. D) It became a political voice in support of slavery for free blacks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It became a political voice against slavery for free blacks in the North. 15. In transcendentalism, man gets his truth from ..... A) The Bible. B) Nature. C) Books. D) Schools. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nature. 16. Which does Emerson value more? A) Original thought. B) Traditional wisdom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Original thought. 17. Words that almost rhyme are called a near rhyme or a ..... rhyme. A) Slack. B) Slim. C) Slant. D) Slimy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Slant. 18. Feeling or expressing remorse for having done wrong A) Furnish. B) Requisition. C) Penitent. D) Manifold. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Penitent. 19. "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men ..... that is genius" What trademark of transcendentalism does this quote represent? A) Self-Reliance. B) Non-conformity. C) Intuition over Reason. D) Simplified Life. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Self-Reliance. 20. What did Thoreau do to help end slavery? A) He worked on the underground railroad. B) He went to jail. C) He delivered lectures. D) He wrote a book. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He worked on the underground railroad. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesTranscendentalism Quiz 1Transcendentalism Quiz 2Transcendentalism Quiz 3Transcendentalism Quiz 5Transcendentalism Quiz 6Transcendentalism Quiz 7Transcendentalism Quiz 8Transcendentalism Quiz 9Transcendentalism Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books