Unit 2 Part 2- Emerson And Thoreau

Question 0

True or False: Emerson sees in nature evidence of God’s presence

Answer 0

True

Question 1

True or False: In “Nature” Emerson states that there are absolutely no possibilities for man to grow spiritually.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

True or False: In “Nature” Emerson claims that he becomes a part or particle of God.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

True or False: As a result of communion with nature, Emerson tells us that his egotism grows by leaps and bounds

Answer 3

False

Question 4

True or False: Thoreau spoke in defiance of tephe abolitionist, Terry McClain, when it was not politically correct to do so.

Answer 4

False

Question 5

True or False: Thoreau wrote in a concrete style and tested what he believed.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

True or False: As a part of Transcendental protest, Thoreau refused to pay his poll tax and went to jail

Answer 6

True

Question 7

True or False: in Self Reliance, he urges people to trust themselves.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

True or False: According to Self Reliance, the greatest obstacle to trust yourself is Society

Answer 8

True

Question 9

True or False: in Self Reliance, Emerson exhorts human beings to strive for absolute consistency.

Answer 9

False

Question 10

True or False: Emerson was originally a Puritan minister

Answer 10

False

Question 11

True or False: Emerson’s works are very abstract and hard to follow

Answer 11

True

Question 12

True or False: Emerson brought the idea of transcendentalism back to America from Europe

Answer 12

True

Question 13

True or False: Emerson was the fountainhead of transcendentalism in American Literature

Answer 13

True

Question 14

True or False: Emerson was the first American author to call for independence of expression in American Literature

Answer 14

True

Question 15

True or False: Unitarianism rejected original sin and Determinism

Answer 15

True

Question 16

True or False: Transcendentalism believed in the goodness of man, the glory of nature, importance of free individual expression, awareness of reality & truth reached through intuition rather than through reason or logic

Answer 16

True

Question 17

True or False: Utopian communities were founded by the Unitarians

Answer 17

False

Question 18

True or False: Unitarians believed in the basic goodness and innate free will of the individual

Answer 18

True

Question 19

True or False: transcendentalism was in opposition to Rationalism which was all brain and no spirit

Answer 19

True

Question 20

True or False: transcendentalists believed that man could reach God by communing with statues

Answer 20

False

Question 21

True or False: Unitarianism believed in a binary God

Answer 21

False

Question 22

True or False: Thoreau advised people to follow their intuitions, however unusual those intuitions may be

Answer 22

True

Question 23

True or False: Thoreau went to live in the woods so he could confront the essential facts of life.

Answer 23

True

Question 24

True or False: Thoreau had a high regard for civilized urban life

Answer 24

False

Question 25

True or False: Thoreau concluded that his experiment of living in the woods was a failure.

Answer 25

False

Question 26

In Nature, Emerson writes "Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight does not reside in nature, but in man, or in a harmony of both". What philosophy does this support

Answer 26

Transcendentalism

Question 27

Which of these statements best characterizes the idea of Self Reliance?

Answer 27

Rely on your own instincts

Question 28

In the excerpt from Self Reliance, Emerson says "Trust ________; every heart vibrates to that iron string"

Answer 28

Thyself

Question 29

Emerson's romanticism is clearly displayed in his

Answer 29

Reliance on emotional truth

Question 30

Which view of nature does Emerson take?

Answer 30

Nature can inspire the human spirit

Question 31

In Self Reliance, Emerson writes that society "loves not realities and creators, but names and customs." Which of these adjectives reflects Emerson's view in that statement?

Answer 31

Disapproving

Question 32

The prose excerpts show that Emerson never abandoned his relief in

Answer 32

unlimited human possibility

Question 33

Which of these quotations from Nature shows Emerson's concept of the Over Soul

Answer 33

"I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me,..."

Question 34

Which of these quotes reflects a key idea of Transcendentalism?

Answer 34

"Nothing is at least sacred but the integrity of your own mind"

Question 35

The man who hears a "different drummer" is best described as

Answer 35

A nonconformist

Question 36

Waldens closing image of the. Morning star leaves readers feeling

Answer 36

Some type of way | Inspired

Question 37

What does Thoreau mean in the following sentences? I do not wish to be anymore busy with my hands than is necessary. My head is hands and feet

Answer 37

He views thinking as a part of his work

Question 38

The excerpt is primarily concerned with

Answer 38

A search for the essence of reality

Question 39

Which of these statements best reflects Thoreau's philosophy as expressed in Walden?

Answer 39

Living a simple life close to nature lets a person concentrate on important things

Question 40

What aspect of philosophy does Thoreau express in the following statement If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because a different drummer.

Answer 40

Individualism

Question 41

In the excerpt from Walden, Thoreau states that one of his chief reasons for going to live in the woods was to

Answer 41

Simplify his life thoroughly