Quiz on Transcendentalism

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1.) Who is a Transcendentalist? *

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a person who does not accept these ideas of intuition not as religious beliefs but as a way of understanding life relationships.

a person who rejects these ideas of intuition not as religious beliefs but as a way of understanding life relationships.

a person who accepts these ideas of intuition not as religious beliefs but as a way of understanding life relationships.

a person who denies these ideas of intuition not as religious beliefs but as a way of understanding life relationships.

2.)Who is said to be the founded Transcendentalism? *

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry David Thoureau

Margaret Fuller

Walt Whitman

3.)Transcendentalists believe in _ rather than logic or senses. *

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reason

heard

imagination / intuition

intellect

5.)What did transcendentalists believe was the center of the universe? *

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God

Nature

Universe

An Individual

7.) The Transcendental club's chief publication was a periodical called _. *

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"The File"

"The Dial"

"The Scale"

"The Call"

9.)In which famous essay, Ralph Waldo Emerson urged Americans to stop looking to Europe for inspiration and imitation and be themselves? *

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Nature

The American Scholar

Self-Reliance

Manners

11.)“Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.” The above quote is written by _. *

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry David Thoreau

Margaret Fuller

Walt Whitman

13.) Transcend means to _. *

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go backward

go above/ beyond

go beside

go behind

14.)Transcendentalism is a 19th-century movement of writers and philosophers in New England. *

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True

False

15.) Which are the major Transcendentalist Values? *

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Individualism

Idealism

Divinity of Nature

All of the Above

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