Transcendentalism

Which one is not a definition of Transcendentalism?

• Living a simpler life makes you happy
• Value each day of your life 
• Believing in miracles and inspiration
• To climb beyond

What does a transcendentalist adopt?

• Simpler lives
• Socialism
• Spiritual doctrine 
• Whole connection of spiritual doctrine 

Why was it hard for Ralph Waldo to concentrate at Harvard?

• He was sick
• His father died 
• Wife died
• Was writing a book 

What's the major theme in the essay, "Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson? 

• Spirituality 
• Simplicity
• Civilism
• Materialism 

Why did Henry David Thoreau drop out of Harvard? 

• Take care of his brother
• Had to serve jail time
• Health issues
• Wife died

What machine did Henry invent? 

• To make mechanical pencils 
• Sharpener
• Pencil maker
• Improve pencils

Thoreau believes that technological advances lead to a better way of life?

• False
• True

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CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

CCSS.RI.9-10.8

Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" was written in order to express _______________________ that Thoreau hoped his readers would adopt.

• political views
• religious views
• aphorisms
• paradoxes

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

True or False. Henry paid all of his taxes

• False
• True

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Transcendentalism is a _______________.

• literary movement
• social reform movement
• philosophical movement
• all of the above