American Romantics Test

Which of the following are true of ALL AMERICAN ROMANTICS?

• Nature, Optimism and Pessimism

• Value nature, Value intuition over reason, Value the supernatural and sublime

• Value Worldly goods, crowds of people, and education

• Nature, Sublime, Education

Romantics celebrated all of the following except:

• industry over all

• feeling over reason

• imagination over science

• nature over civilization

Transcendentalists believed

• America was destined to conquer the world

• Nature was a door to the supernatural

• true art could only be created by Americans

• poetry was irrelevant

American Romantic writers rejected RATIONALISM because they believed that

• logical thought is not possible

• scientific thinking had not been proven

• intuition and imagination yield greater truths

• rationalists were afraid to do things

Both Whitman and Dickinson poems are examples of poetry that

• stresses the pangs of love that are not returned

• praises the work of ordinary people

• abandons conventional rhyme and meter

• captures the cadence of public speakers

The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls by Longfellow is sublime in that it:

• accepts the fact that life goes on

• mimics the ebb and flow of the tide

• says the ocean is dangerous

• is optimistic

The Song of Hiawatha is an epic romantic poem that:

• recalls adventures of a Native American Chief

• is dark

• describes autumn

• recalls adventures of a British Poet from England

In the woods, Ralph Waldo Emerson finds:

• an eyeball

• abundant fish

• peace and tranquility

• love and joy

Ralph Waldo Emerson's purpose in "Nature" is to:

• express his disappointment in the society of his time

• explain and analyze how nature works

• describe a profound way of seeing nature

• argue that everyone should leave the cities and live in nature

Which of the following generalizations best summarized Henry David Thoreau's opinions about life?

• Solitude is tedious and boring

• A simple life is a happy life

• the mind can be stimulated only by reading

• Intelligent people need many friends