Emerson "from Nature" and "from Self-Reliance"

Most Transcendentalists were involved in either the anti-slavery or the women's rights movements

• True
• False

Transcendentalism is linked to social reform and rights movements.

• true
• false

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Complete the following quote: "To be great is to be...."

• saved
• a genius
• intelligent
• misunderstood

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Emerson: "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is ________."

• reliance

• suicide

• right

• might

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What historical figures does Emerson reference when he says "to be great is to be misunderstood."

• Socrates, Jesus, Galileo, Pythagoras, Copernicus, and Newton

• Plato, George Washington, Jesus, Thoreau, Newton, and Benjamin Franklin

• Aristotle, King George, Jesus, Melville, Tesla, and Marie Curie

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Transcendentalism was

• A movement that emphasized the importance of conformity and nature.

• A movement that believed all humans are evil and need to be controlled by society.

• A movement that celebrated the divine nature of the individual and the natural world.

• A movement that celebrated transcendental yoga, and the idea that meditation can send you to a great spiritual plane.

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Who was the founding father of Transcendentalism?

• Thoreau
• Whitman
• Emerson
• Waldo

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Time Period of romanticism and transcendentalism?

• 1600-1660
• 1700-1760
• 1800-1860
• 1900-1960

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The Romantics and Transcendentalists are interested in putting others first, and focusing on themselves last?

• True
• False

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Which of these statements best characterized the central idea of "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson?

• Meekness is the virtue that fosters self-awareness

• Rely on your own instincts

• customs serve a valuable purpose

• Believe in the wisdom of others

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