Transcendentalism Emerson and Thoreau

Words related to "transcendental" include:

• transpose, ascendant, dental

• physical, tangible, concrete

• abstract, metaphysical, supernatural

• dark, horrific, tragic

Which set does NOT contain key words describing the SIX TENETS of Transcendentalism?

• Individuality and Confidence

• Nature and Spirituality

• Self-Reliance and Non-Conformity

• Predestination and Conventionality

Who was an eighth generation, Harvard educated minister?

• Henry David Thoreau

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Edgar Allan Poe

• James Earl Jones

Which is NOT one of Ralph Waldo Emerson's noted writings?

• The British Scholar

• Fate

• Self-Reliance

• Nature

Which Transcendentalist died in a shipwreck?

• Henry David Throeau

• Margaret Fuller

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Frederic Henry Hedge

What was "The Dial"?

• The Transcendental Bible

• A manner of meditation to help one connect with one's intuition

• The tool naturalists used to tell the time according to the sun

• A literary journal for Transcendentalist thought

"Walden" is what?

• A book written by Emerson about the natural beauty of Walden Pond.

• A poem written by Thoreau about nature.

• An essay written by Fuller about Transcendentalist values.

• A journal about the two years Thoreau spent living alone in nature.

Civil Disobedience is an essay by Thoreau that inspired:

• passive resistance

• Mahatma Gandhi

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• All three

According to the SIX TENETS we reviewed, Transcendentalists believed that what was the highest form of the soul?

• human intuition

• human individuality

• natural experience

• simplification

Emerson and the Transcendentalists worked to define ________________ and ________________ in a new way.

• religion; spirituality

• industry; success

• work; power

• change; literature