LSVHM Chapter 3

........................movement is a reaction against 18th century rationalism and a manifestation of the general humanitarian trend of nineteenth century thought.

• Realism
• Enlightenment
• Transcendentaism

• Classicism

The movement of transcendentalism was based on the belief in the unity of ....

• Nature and soul

• The world and God

• Soul and individualism
• Nature and God

Which work by Emerson is considered as the clearest statement of Transcendentalist ideas?

• The Poet (1844)

• The American Scholar (1837)

• Nature (1836)

Who is the most attractive of the Transcendentalists today because of his ecological consciousness, do-it-yourself independence, ethical commitment to abolitionism, and political theory of civil disobedience and peaceful resistance.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Walt Whitman
• Margaret Fuller
• Henry David Thoreau

Who greatly influenced Whitman and his work Leaves of Grass?

• Mark Twain
• Emily Dickinson
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Henry James

Who invented the myth of democratic America. “The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States is essentially the greatest poem.”

• Mark Twain
• Ernest Hemingway
• Henry James
• Walt Whitman

Whitman’s Leaves of Grass is the epic that opened the ........ form in American poetry, with a vibrant democratic spirit and national celebration.

• lyrical verse

• narrative poetry

• free verse

• rhymed couplets

How did the Brahmin poets unintentionally affect the development of American literature?

• They discouraged literary experimentation
• the Brahmin poets slowed down the growth of a distinctive American consciousness.

• They focused solely on American folklore
• They emphasized traditional European literature

Being the first professional woman journalist of note in America, in her work Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845), Margaret Fuller emphasized the importance of ...

• B. Women’s domestic roles
• A. Women’s education
• D. Women’s self-dependence
• C. Women’s voting rights

What was Margaret Fuller's most significant book?

• Essays on American Life

• The American Scholar

• Nature and Its Influence

• Woman in the Nineteenth Century