American Transcendentalism

TRANSCENDENTALISM is the idea that in order to learn the truth about the self, the universe, the divine, and everything else, one must TRANSCEND - or go beyond -

• everyday human experience in the physical world

• the boundaries of Toms River

• the point of no return

• the limits of Fantasia

______ lived alone for two years at ________.

• Emerson; Walden Pond

• Correll; Toms River

• Clayton; Bamber Lake

• Thoreau; Walden Pond

Who co-founded "The Dial"?

• Emerson and Thoreau

• Thoreau and Fuller

• Emerson and Fuller

• Emerson and Ripley

By contemplating ________,

the individual can _________

the world and discover their _________.

• transcendence, forget, intuition

• true freedom, embrace, destiny

• nature, transcend, divine truth

• god, escape, true nature

According to the SIX TENETS we reviewed, Transcendentalists believed that what was the highest form of the soul?

• human intuition

• human individuality

• natural experience

• simplification

Words related to "transcendental" include:

• transpose, ascendant, dental

• physical, tangible, concrete

• abstract, metaphysical, supernatural

• dark, horrific, tragic

Which set does NOT contain key words describing the SIX TENETS of Transcendentalism?

• Individuality and Confidence

• Nature and Spirituality

• Self-Reliance and Non-Conformity

• Predestination and Conventionality

Who was an eighth generation, Harvard educated minister?

• Henry David Thoreau

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Edgar Allan Poe

• James Earl Jones

Which is NOT one of Ralph Waldo Emerson's noted writings?

• The British Scholar

• Fate

• Self-Reliance

• Nature

Which Transcendentalist died in a shipwreck?

• Henry David Throeau

• Margaret Fuller

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Frederic Henry Hedge