This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Transcendentalism > Transcendentalism – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Transcendentalism Quiz 8 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who or what should every person trust? A) "every heart". B) "thyself". C) "society". D) "contemporaries". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "thyself". 2. Which person was a transcendentalist writer who lived on Walden Pond? A) Walt Whitman. B) Henry David Thoreau. C) Frederick Church. D) Thomas Cole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Henry David Thoreau. 3. This type of poetic verse was frequently used by the early transcendentalists, such as Emerson or Longfellow. A) Quatrains. B) Free-Verse. C) Sonnet. D) Iambic Pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quatrains. 4. Who wrote the poem "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls" ? A) William Shakespeare. B) Langston Hughes. C) William Wadsworth Longfellow. D) Ralph Waldo Emerson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) William Wadsworth Longfellow. 5. Which of the following definitions best represents the meaning of the word "suffrage?" A) The action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution. B) The right to vote in political elections. C) Anything that pertains to a person's relationship with a nonmaterial life force or higher power. D) Possible, able to happen; something that can develop or become a reality. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The right to vote in political elections. 6. What does Emerson mean by "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds?" A) A great mind is not afraid to contradict their ideas for new ones. B) A great mind does not contradict their own ideas. C) Hobgoblins are scary. D) Doing the same foolish thing over and over is cool. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A great mind is not afraid to contradict their ideas for new ones. 7. What larger literary period is Transcendentalism said to be a part of? A) It's its own, completely separate, literary period. B) Puritanism. C) Romanticism. D) Rationalism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Romanticism. 8. In the poem "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer", in what line does Whitman's narrator most clearly demonstrate a desire for individuality? A) When I heard the learn'd astronomer. B) When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room. C) Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself. D) Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself. 9. Some students dress up in a(n) ..... way:all pink, broken jeans, or cool hats. They dress differently. A) Emerge. B) Inherent. C) Peculiar. D) Exalt. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Peculiar. 10. How does Thoreau feel about technological progress? A) He feels that railroads have positively impacted the culture in America. B) Thoreau distrusts technology and feels that it tends to control people rather than serve them. C) Thoreau enjoys tinkering with the inventions of his era. D) Thoreau is indifferent in concerns to technological progress of his time. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thoreau distrusts technology and feels that it tends to control people rather than serve them. 11. The Transcendentalist placed an emphasis on A) The importance of the government making sound decisions to benefits the citizens. B) The focus on the individual because everyone has a way of being connected to the Oversoul. C) The belief that through hard work the truth about humankind will be revealed. D) The right of all people to have a say so in how the government would run the country. They believed individuals should be involved to create laws and make a change. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The focus on the individual because everyone has a way of being connected to the Oversoul. 12. What event ended Transcendentalism? A) The Enlightenment. B) World War I. C) The American Revolution. D) The Civil War. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Civil War. 13. Transcendentalist Walt Whitman captured the spirit of young America by creating A) Memorable music. B) Song-like poetry. C) Lyrical, romantic novels. D) Vibrant landscape paintings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Song-like poetry. 14. A movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization A) Romanticism. B) Transcendentalism. C) Industrialism. D) Reflectionism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Romanticism. 15. An economic system built on large industries rather than on agriculture or craftsmanship A) Agrarianism. B) Capitalism. C) Communism. D) Industrialism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Industrialism. 16. True or False-The following quote suggests that we should all conform to the rules of society: "'Misunderstood!" ' It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo and Newton and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 17. Which movement did Ralph Waldo Emerson lead? A) Abolitionism. B) Temperance. C) Transcendentalism. D) The 2nd Great Awakening. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transcendentalism. 18. If someone gets caught doing something bad, and then they get absolved of this "crime, " is it a good or a bad thing? A) A good thing. B) A bad thing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A good thing. 19. This cabin was built by which Transcendentalist author? A) Ralph Waldo Emerson. B) Henry David Thoreau. C) Herman Melville. D) Nathaniel Hawthorne. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Henry David Thoreau. 20. "Her deck, once red with heroes' blood/Where knelt the vanquished foe, " A) Old Ironsides. B) The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls. C) Paul Revere's Ride. D) Self-Reliance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Old Ironsides. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesTranscendentalism Quiz 1Transcendentalism Quiz 2Transcendentalism Quiz 3Transcendentalism Quiz 4Transcendentalism Quiz 5Transcendentalism Quiz 6Transcendentalism Quiz 7Transcendentalism Quiz 9Transcendentalism Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books