This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Transcendentalism > Transcendentalism – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Quiz 6 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "I can't believe they'd try and buy me a car, or that they think I'd actually let them pay for my law school if I was going to go ..... " This idea is best explained as A) Non-Conformity. B) Self-Reliance. C) Simplified Life. D) The importance of Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Non-Conformity. 2. Which characteristic of Transcendentalism means: "the feeling or belief that one can rely on someone/something, certainty in one's abilities" ? A) Nonconformity. B) Self-Reliance. C) Free Thought. D) Confidence. E) Importance of Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Confidence. 3. What did Thoreau believe about unjust laws? A) They are irrelevant. B) They should be changed through reason. C) They should be ignored. D) They should be obeyed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They should be ignored. 4. In Romanticism, nature is all of the following except ..... A) A place to hide. B) A way to understand God. C) Source for the knowledge of the things that came before. D) A religious movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A religious movement. 5. Use the information from the list to answer the question. * People have knowledge about the world that goes beyond the five senses. * People should trust themselves to be their own authority. * Americans should stop looking to Europe for inspiration.* Nature and people are inherently good. A) Abolitionists. B) Puritans. C) Shakers. D) Transcendentalists. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Transcendentalists. 6. Which characteristic of Transcendentalism means: "depending on one's own power and resources instead of those of others" ? A) Nonconformity. B) Self-Reliance. C) Free Thought. D) Confidence. E) Importance of Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Self-Reliance. 7. Transcendentalism was first expressed in ..... A) Walden by Henry David Thoreau. B) The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. C) Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson. D) Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson. 8. "Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string." A) Nature. B) Self Reliance. C) Walden. D) Thanatopsis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Self Reliance. 9. Studied anatomy & behavior of birds A) John Deere. B) Alexander Graham Bell. C) James John Audubon. D) Frederick Douglass. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) James John Audubon. 10. Transcendentalists and Romantics both believe in the power of the imagination. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. What was the name of the transcendental commune that is in New England in the 1800's? A) Happy Land. B) Candy Land. C) Woodstock. D) Brook Farm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Brook Farm. 12. Who is one author from the Romantic Period in America? A) Henry David Thoreau. B) Ralph Waldo Emerson. C) Washington Irving. D) Walt Whitman. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Washington Irving. 13. True or False?Romanticism and Transcendentalism both contain characteristics that include:nature, imagination, and intuition. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 14. Define 'free verse' A) Poetry with no regular patterns of rhyme or meter. B) Poetry with regular patterns of rhyme or meter. C) Poetry written with a precise meter that does not rhyme. D) Poetry with three-line stanzas with a 5/7/5 syllable count. E) Poetry that normally tells a story about a hero or an adventure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry with no regular patterns of rhyme or meter. 15. Based on "Nature", how does one reach solitude, or true peace? A) By taking a hike in the woods every morning to free your mind. B) By breaking free from society and embracing nature in order to learn about oneself. C) Writing at home about how one would picture nature by using one's imagination. D) By making a weekly effort to watch nature documentaries and observe the documentaries' details. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) By breaking free from society and embracing nature in order to learn about oneself. 16. True or False:Henry David Thoreau was against slavery. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 17. Which of the following definitions best represents the meaning of the word conscience? A) Anything that pertains to a person's relationship with a nonmaterial life force or higher power. B) An effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning. 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: C) An inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior. 18. Who wrote the essay 'Civil Disobedience'? A) Walt Whitman. B) Emily Dickinson. C) Henry David Thoreau. D) Ralph Waldo Emerson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Henry David Thoreau. 19. What is the tone in Nature? A) Angry/aggressive. B) Persuasive/factual. C) Lyrical/magical. D) Inspiring/peaceful. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inspiring/peaceful. 20. Transcendentalism started during the 1800's. 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 7Transcendentalism Quiz 8Transcendentalism Quiz 9Transcendentalism Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books