Transcendentalism and Romanticism Practice

The Romantic and Transcendental movements were a reaction against which 18th-century movement?

• Age of Enlightenment

• Victorian Era

• Gothic Revival

• Industrial Revolution

Transcendentalist writers advocated for the right to:

• to innovate

• to govern

• to dissent

• to educate

What does civil disobedience involve?

• A public demonstration without breaking laws

• A private refusal to pay taxes

• A violent overthrow of government

• A nonviolent, public refusal to obey unjust laws

Who pioneered the philosophy of Transcendentalism? In other words, who was the leader of the movement?

• Walt Whitman

• Margaret Fuller

• Henry David Thoreau

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

Transcendentalism is an American sub-genre of which movement?

• Classicism

• Modernism

• Realism

• Romanticism

What did the Romantic Movement highly value?

• The church and religious dogma

• The individual and personal freedom

• The collective and societal norms

• The monarchy and traditional hierarchies

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What did the Romantics reject?

• Imagination and creativity

• Science and technology

• Nature and the natural world

• Rules, tradition, and society

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Transcendentalism especially emphasized:

• Focus on industrial progress

• Conformity to societal expectations

• Non-conformity

• Adherence to religious traditions

What did the Romantics believe about people?

• People were naturally inclined to evil

• People were inherently selfish

• People were born essentially good

• People were born sinful and corrupt

Transcendentalists believed that reality transcended the:

• Human imagination

• Scientific understanding

• Spiritual realm

• Physical world

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