Transcendentalism Quiz

What years do the Transcendentalist movement take place?

• 1700s
• 1800s
• 1900s

Select TWO of the following founding members of the Transcendentalism movement.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• John Proctor
• Benjamin Franklin
• Henry David Thoreau

True or False. The Transcendentalism movement is also a literary movement.

• True
• False

What is Ralph Waldo Emerson's most popular work?

• Self-reliance
• Individualists Guide to Walking in the Woods
• Walden Pond Adventures

Select TWO works that Henry David Thoreau most known for.

• Civil Disobedience
• Walden
• Walking through the Woods

Select THREE of the five Transcendentalism values that are listed below.

• Nonconformity
• Nature
• Simple Living
• Conformity
• Religion

What does the word, "nonconformity" mean?

• To follow the laws and to obey society's standards.
• To forge one owns path, to disobey society's standards.

The Transcendentalism movement valued ______________ over society.

• individuality
• conformity
• religion

Transcendentalism encourages...

• being liked by everyone
• following society's rules
• not conforming to what others say or do

Select the Transcendentalist Ideal that this quote most relates to: "Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail." ~ Thoreau

• Noncomformity
• Simple Living
• Self-reliance