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1
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Who Graduated from Harvard

A

Thoreau

2
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Who became a teacher but was fired really fast

A

Thoreau

3
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Who wrote the “Minister’s Black Veil”

A

Hawthorne

4
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Who wrote Billy Budd

A

Melville

5
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Who died poor despite his writing career

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Melville

6
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Who wrote “Civil Disobedience”

A

Thoreau

7
Q

Who was ashamed of his puritan ancestors

A

Hawthorne

8
Q

Was born in Salem

A

Hawthorne

9
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Who was known as a philosopher

A

Emerson

10
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Who wrote Nature

A

Emerson

11
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Define utopia.

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Utopias were “Perfect communities” that sprang up during this time of perfection.

12
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Who was the German philosopher that Transcendentalism is based on?

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Immanuel Knat

13
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Transcendentalists believed that man was inherently ______.

A

good

14
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Describe how Emerson said you could be one with nature.

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He becomes transparent because he is ONE with nature. Nature can not make this feeling alone man must use his experiences, senses, and feelings of emotion.

15
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Know the two things that “Self-Reliance” is supposed to teach you.

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Trust thyself. Every person has a unique and special purpose

16
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Know two of Emerson’s jobs.

A

Essayist and Poet

17
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Know two works by Thoreau.

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Walden and “Civil Disobedience”

18
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“He went into the woods to live ______.” - Walden

A

Deliberately

19
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What did anti-trans think about trans?

A

These writers believed that the Transcendentalists had a much too rosy outlook on life.

20
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narrator from Moby Dick

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Ishmael

21
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The captain from Moby Dick

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Ahab

22
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The whale from Moby Dick

A

Moby Dick

23
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The first mate from Moby Dick

A

Starbuck

24
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The boat from Moby Dick

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Pequod

25
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Tell three of Transcendentalist beliefs.

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Everything in the world, including human beings, is a reflection of the divine soul.

The physical faces of the natural world are a doorway to the spiritual world.

People can use their intuition to behold God’s spirit revealed in nature or in their own souls.

26
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Two well known anti-Transcendentalists.

A

Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne

27
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What are the three levels of Moby Dick?

A

The surface story
The symbolic level
The philosophical examination

28
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List three of Hawthorne’s reoccurring themes.

A

Sin
Guilt
Evil

29
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What was “Civil Disobedience” a reaction to?

A

Getting jailed for not paying his taxes