American Romanticism and Transcendentalism

What time period did the American Romantics take place?

• 1600s

• 1800-1860s

• 1776

• 1990s

The Romantics valued all of the following EXCEPT:

• nature

• the individiual

• imagination

• the government

Romantics believed that nature=corruption

• true

• false

Transcendentalists believed that society and its institutions corrupt the purity of the human soul.

• true

• false

What is the Romantic and Transcendentalist belief about nature?

• nature is awe-inspiring and reflects spirituality

• nature is the origin of evil

• nature is unstable and changes too much

• natures is "just" there"

The transcendentalists believed in self-reliance and free thought.

• true

• false

Which of the following is NOT one of the five "I's" of Romantic beliefs?

• imagination

• individualism

• intuition

• institution

• inspiration

What was the sub-category of the Romantic period. Also called the "Dark Romantics"

• Comedy

• Tragedy

• Gothic

• Science Fiction

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Which of the following BEST describes Gothic literature?

• focus on beauty and nature

• focus on the strength of the individiual

• focus on inspiration found in the natural world and the people around us

• focus on a dark, maybe even scary, side of human nature

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Which of the following is one of the most famous Gothic literature writers?

• Arthur Miller

• Walt Whitman

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Henry David Thoreau

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