Transcendentalism and Anti-Transcendentalism

Question 1

Graduated From Harvard

Answer 1

Henry David Thoreau

Question 2

Who wrote “The Minister’s Black Veil”?

Answer 2

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 3

Who wrote Billy Bud?

Answer 3

Herman Melville

Question 4

Who Wrote “Civil Disobedience”?

Answer 4

Henry David Thoreau

Question 5

Who was ashamed of his Puritan ancestors?

Answer 5

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 6

Who was Born in Salem?

Answer 6

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Question 7

Who was the Author of Nature?

Answer 7

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 8

Define a utopia

Answer 8

Utopias were “Perfect Communities” that sprang up during the time of perfection.

Question 9

“I went into the woods to live _____.” By:Thoreau in Walden

Answer 9

Deliberately

Question 10

In Moby Dick who is the captain?

Answer 10

Ahab

Question 11

In Moby Dick what is the name of the whale?

Answer 11

Moby Dick

Question 12

In Moby Dick who is the First mate?

Answer 12

Starbuck

Question 13

What is the name of boat in Moby Dick?

Answer 13

Pequod

Question 14

Became a teacher but was fired really early

Answer 14

Henry David Thoreau

Question 15

How Emerson believed you could come one with nature?

Answer 15

Transparent Eyeball

Question 16

Two things that “Self-Reliance” is supposed to teach you

Answer 16

Trust thyself and every person has a unique and special purpose

Question 17

Two of Emerson’s jobs

Answer 17

Essayist and Poet

Question 18

Two works by Thoreau

Answer 18

Walden and Civil Disobedience

Question 19

Three transcendentalist beliefs

Answer 19

• Everything in the world, including human being, 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 institution to behold God’s spirit revealed in nature or in their own souls

Question 20

What Anti-Transcendentalists thought about Transcendentalists?

Answer 20

These writers believed that the transcendentalist has a much too rosy outlook on life

Question 21

In Moby Dick, Three levels of writing

Answer 21

1. The surface story about the fateful voyage of a whaling ship;an exciting sea adventure
2. The symbolic level of a bitter man’s quest for vengeance and searching for truth
3. The philosophical examination of humanity’s relationship to the natural world

Question 22

List three of Hawthorne’s recurring things

Answer 22

Sin
Guilt
Evil

Question 23

What was civil disobedience a reaction to?

Answer 23

Reaction for being jailed for not paying taxes

Question 24

Transcendentalists believed that man was inherently _____.

Answer 24

Good

Question 25

Who died poor despite his writing career?

Answer 25

Herman Melville

Question 26

Who was known as a philosopher?

Answer 26

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 27

Who was the narrator in Moby Dick?

Answer 27

Ishmael

Question 28

German philosopher transcendentalism is based on

Answer 28

Immanuel Kant

Question 29

Who died poor despite his writing career?

Answer 29

Herman Melville

Question 30

Two Well Known Anti-Transcendentalism

Answer 30

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville