Question 1
During the mid-19th century, Transcendentalist writers had a strong influence over the formation of
(A) labor unions
(B) new Protestant sects
(C) utopian communities
(D)nativist organizations
Question 2
Which of these Transcendentalist writings had the most direct influence on African American activists in the 1950s and 1960s?
(A) "Ambition"
(B) "Orphic Sayings"
(C) "Woman in the Nineteenth Century"
(D) "Two Rivers"
Question 3
Transcendentalism was centered on writers and thinkers from which region?
(A) Appalachia
(B) The Midwest
(C) New England
(D) The South
Question 4
Which of these values was central to the Transcendentalist writers?
(A) Connection with nature
(B) Connection with urban life
(C) Patriotism for the United States
(D) Charity for the poor
Question 5
Which American author was most directly inspired by the ideals of Transcendentalism?
(A) Herman Melville
(B) Henry David Thoreau
(C) Harriet Beecher Stowe
(D) James Fennimore Cooper