Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance" and _Nature_

Which ideas did authors and poets of the Romantic period focus on?

• individuality, imagination, and subjectivity

• conformity, imagination, and objective reasoning

• individuality, logic, and subjectivity

• conformity, logic, and objective reasoning

Of what Romantic movement was Ralph Waldo Emerson the acknowledged leader?

• Fireside Poets

• Transylvanianism

• Transcendentalism

• The Luddites

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Which word best completes the following quotation by Emerson?

"All life is a(n) ___________. The more ____________(s) you make, the better."

• mistake

• song

• experiment

• dream

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Which famous school did Emerson attend?

• Harvard

• Yale

• University of Delaware

• Cornell

• Princeton

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What caused Emerson to question his occupation and his Christian beliefs?

• The death of his only son

• The destruction he saw during the Civil War

• His failure to graduate from Yale.

• The death of his wife

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Which nickname was given to Ralph Waldo Emerson?

• The Bard of Boston

• The Sage of Concord

• The Mind of Massachusetts

• The Emperor of New England

In "Self-Reliance," at what conviction does Emerson say that all people arrive during their education?

• That people shouldn't be jealous of others and accept who they are.

• That people will never get better so they should give up hope of a better life.

• That society is just too big to fight and they should just give in

• That you would be better off in life if you stopped studying

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In "Self-Reliance," what two fears does Emerson identify as those that stop people from trusting themselves?

• fear of other's reactions and fear of the truth

• fear of other's reactions and fear of dying

• fear of other's reactions and fear of being inconsistent

• fear of other's reactions and fear of rabbits

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A nonconformist is someone who

• does everything they are told to do.

• does not follow the beliefs of the majority.

• does not like farms.

• follows the beliefs of a carefully outlined code of conduct.

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What does Emerson call consistency?

• "A great warrior against chaos"

• "The secret sage of intelligence"

• "The elf on the shelf"

• "The hobgoblin of little minds"

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