Transcendentalism Quiz 7 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of the following is NOT one of the themes of Transcendentalism?

Correct Answer: E) Westward Expansion.

2. To pervade means (especially ..... ) spread through and be perceived in every part of

Correct Answer: A) Of a smell.

3. The author of Nature and Self Reliance

Correct Answer: C) Ralph Waldo Emerson.

4. What was the name of the large gatherings where preachers shared ideas

Correct Answer: C) Revival or Camps.

5. An opportunity for free land in the Midwest

Correct Answer: C) An economic boom in the west.

6. What is the oversoul according to transcendentalists?

Correct Answer: A) The combination of every god from every religion.

7. What must everyone realize at some point in life?

Correct Answer: D) That we can never know our true potential until we test ourselves.

8. What was the primary belief of Transcendentalists about nature?

Correct Answer: B) It is a manifestation of the divine.

9. Who and what text talks about the "realometer?"

Correct Answer: C) Thoreau & Where I live and What I Lived For.

10. What is Civil Disobedience?

Correct Answer: A) Going against the rules/law, but in a civil and respectful way.

11. Which Transcendentalist lived out his philosophy by moving to a cabin on Walden Pond?

Correct Answer: B) Henry David Thoreau.

12. Which author graduated from Harvard and became a teacher but quit and lived at Walden pond?

Correct Answer: D) Henry David Thoreau.

13. Loving your ..... is the measure of .....

Correct Answer: B) Work; success.

14. Which of these is a theme that Transcendentalist works focus on?

Correct Answer: A) Individualism.

15. Romantic author Edgar Allen Poe was known for

Correct Answer: A) Inventing the detective story.

16. What part of speech is speculating?

Correct Answer: B) Verb.

17. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is an example of a(n)

Correct Answer: B) Aphorism.

18. In the poem "Song of Myself", in what line does Whitman most clearly describe a belief in an Oversoul?

Correct Answer: C) For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

19. While in the woods, he .....

Correct Answer: D) Lived alone in harmony with nature and away from material objects.

20. What does Thoreau mean when he say we are "starved" before we are "hungry" ?

Correct Answer: A) We live in such a hurry that we skip to the most extreme steps.