WorksheetsTranscendentalist Review
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 3mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The larger group who believed that imagination, individuality, and intuition trumped reason
a)
Transcendentalists
b)
Colonialists
c)
Dark Romantics
d)
Romantics
2.
The group that believed that humans were essentially good and valued finding oneself in nature
a)
Transcendentalists
b)
Colonialists
c)
Dark Romantics
d)
Romantics
3.
The religious group that Hawthorne rebelled against in his writing
a)
Catholics
b)
Puritans
c)
Quakers
d)
Methodists
4.
The place Thoreau lived to attune with nature - he wrote extensively about it
a)
The woods
b)
Appalachian Mountains
c)
Walden Pond
d)
Salem, MA
5.
The author of two essays - "Nature" and "Self-Reliance," who was fed up with society and conformity
a)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
b)
Walt Whitman
c)
Emily Dickinson
d)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
6.
The tool by which authors create vivid descriptions, prevalent in Whitman's poetry
a)
Metaphor
b)
Irony
c)
Imagery
d)
Tone
7.
The rough time period of the American Transcendentalist movement
a)
Early 19th century
b)
Late 19th century
c)
Early 20th century
d)
Late 18th century
8.
The group Whitman praised in his poem "I Hear America Singing"
a)
Transcendentalists
b)
Blue-collar workers
c)
White-collar workers
d)
Puritans
9.
The group that did not believe people were essentially good - they wrote about suffering and sin
a)
Transcendentalists
b)
Colonialists
c)
Dark Romantics
d)
Romantics
10.
The American historical "event" used to justify moving westward after the Louisiana Purchase, which spurred the Transcendentalist movement
a)
War of 1812
b)
Manifest Destiny
c)
California Gold Rush
d)
Dust Bowl
11.
Thoreau's commandment
a)
"Be humble!"
b)
"Conform!"
c)
"Simplify!"
d)
"Get out the way!"
12.
The American historical "event" that led to Transcendental dissatisfaction with cities and civilization
a)
American Civil War
b)
Manifest Destiny
c)
War of 1812
d)
Industrial Revolution
13.
The entity that saved the narrator at the end of Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum"
a)
God
b)
The Spanish Inquisition
c)
The French General Lasalle
d)
No one - he freed himself
14.
The entity Young Goodman Brown met in the woods at the beginning of Hawthorne's story
a)
Satan
b)
His wife
c)
Mother nature
d)
Poe
15.
The author of the essay "Women in the 19th Century," which appeared in your 1st semester final
a)
Margaret Atwood
b)
Margaret Moses
c)
Margaret Fuller
d)
Margaret Thatcher
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