WorksheetsTRANSCENDENTALISM
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
Which of the following statements best characterizes the Romantics?
The Romantics believed that science, and the language of science were the ways to truth
The Romantics believed that people should rely on the authority and ideas of the past to arrive at truth
The Romantics believed intuition and emotion (imagination) were superior to reason
The Romantics focused their writings on the daily life and struggles of the new workers of the Industrial Revolution in an almost photographic way.
Which of the following statements best describes the philosophy of Transcendentalism?
A spiritual connection to nature, and an inherent belief in the positive power of the individual.
A spiritual connection to nature, and an inherent mistrust in the power of the individual.
A religious zeal for nature and a belief in the power of organized religion.
A spiritual connection to both nature and the study of history.
Name the text that this quote originates from:
"I felt if I alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax."
"Walden"
"Self-Reliance"
"Civil Disobedience"
"Nature"
What is implicit about city life in Emerson's essay, "Nature", when he writes "in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages"? Choose the BEST answer.
Emerson implies that nature reflects human nature, and cities and villages do not.
Emerson implies that a life of ascetic solitude is far greater than a social life.
Emerson implies that nature nurtures us while the cities harm us.
Emerson implies that nature is good, and that cities can be good as well.
What image accompanies this quote by Emerson, "All mean egotism vanishes..."
A ship sailing on the choppy seas of civilized life
A great transparent eyeball
The god of loons
solitude
Name the text from which the following quote originates:
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds..."
"Nature"
"Self-Reliance"
"Walden"
"Civil Disobedience"
What does the loon symbolize in "Walden"?
The loon symbolizes nature
The loon symbolizes Thoreau's fears
The loon symbolizes Thoreau's pursuit of the truth
The loon symbolizes madness
From which essay does the following quote originate:
"To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society."
"Nature"
"Self-Reliance"
"Walden"
"Civil Disobedience"
In "Civil Disobedience" what does Thoreau ask for instead of no government all at once?
a better government
an honest politician
increased and better commerce
an end to unjust taxation
The following statement is an example of what literary device?
"That government is best that governs the least."
Anapest
Oxymoron
Paradox
Personification
Name the work from which this quote originates:
"I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world.."
"Nature"
"Self-Reliance"
"Walden"
"Civil Disobedience"
What does thanatopsis mean?
A view, or contemplation of death.
A poem that deals with life
Destruction
A vision of the apocalypse
In Longfellow's poem, "The Tide Rises the Tide Falls" what might the traveler symbolize?
The permanence of man
The permanence of time
The Poet
An Everyman figure
In Longfellow's poem, "The Tide Rises the Tide Falls" what do the waves do to the traveler's footprints?
The cover them
They wash them away
They fill them with water
Nothing
