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Transcendentalism Quiz 9 (20 MCQs)

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1. According to the Transcendentalists, the way to discover spirituality is:
2. Transcendentalism is a movement in what areas?
3. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime. Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are! If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. This piece from Emerson is from which of his excerpts
4. Edgar Allan Poe was a transcendentalist.
5. Everything (even humans) in the world is a reflection of the Divine Soul
6. Which statement best expresses the main idea of these sentences in the selection from Walden? I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pondside; and though it is five or six years since I trod it, it is still quite distinct ..... The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!
7. The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities is
8. What was Thoreau's view on slavery?
9. What period (years) did Transcendentalism dominate American literature?
10. Which American literary movement formed prior to Transcendentalism?
11. When did this movement occur?
12. This author had a large sum of money since birth, but used this funding to be a strong abolitionist, composing poetry such as "The Warning" in his Poems About Slavery.
13. The founder of the transcendental movement is the German philosopher
14. Where I Lived and What I Lived For makes a reference to the Arabian Nights. What figurative language technique is this called?
15. What was Margaret Fuller's major feminist work?
16. What is the type of figurative language used in the following line: "My headache was so bad. I was sure my head was going to literally explode."
17. "That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest"
18. A movement in the arts and literature that originated in the early 1800s emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual.
19. What is the type of figurative language used in the following line: "He was a bulldozer, pushing over anyone who got in his way."
20. The human soul is part of the ..... or universal spirit (or "float" for Whitman) to which it and other souls return at death.
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