Emerson and "Self-Reliance"

1. Ralph Waldo Emerson was born on May 25, 1803, in Boston, Massachusetts.

• True

• False

Emerson was a Yale-educated essayist and lecturer.

• True
• False

Transcendentalists believe that modern education is corrupting ______.

• Knowledge
• Individualism
• Society
• Careers

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

• True
• False

What college did both Emerson and Thoreau attend?

• Yale
• Stanford
• Princeton
• Harvard

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 whe 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

• IDK

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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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