Henry David Thoreau & Trancendentalism

To which literary movement can Thoreau be associated?

• Transcendentalism

• Realism

• Anti-Transcendentalism

• Romanticism

What inspired Thoreau to write Civil Disobedience?

• Spanish-American War

• Civil War

• Mexican War

• Revolutionary War

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Civil Disobedience is a __________ on the relationship between citizen and government.

• meditation

• endeavor

• multitude

• unscrupulous

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Why did Thoreau go to Walden Pond?

• He had given up on life

• He needed time away for a while

• He wanted to lead a more mearningful life.

• He was bored.

“The mass of men serve the State, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.”

The quote above is a part of Thoreau’s work called:

• Civil Desobedience

• Walden

• The Maine Woods

• Slavery in Massachusetts

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He wrote “civil disobedience” after a night in jail, what did he opposed to in this book?

• Slavery and the Mexican-American War.

• Religious dominance and the war against Indians.

• Public power and liberty.

• Religious freedom and the Mexican-American War.

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What were people called who supported ending slavery?

• transcendentalists
• abolitionists
• feminists
• missionaires

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Transcendentalism encourages:

• following the rules

• being like everyone else

• joining the majority opinion

• not conforming to what others do and say

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The Transcendentalists believed in self-reliance and free thought.

• True

• False

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Transcendentalists believed in:

• the Power of the Government

• the Power of Technology

• the Power of the Individual

• the Power of God

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