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Transcendentalism Test Flashcards

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1
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Wrote The Minister’s Black Veil

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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2
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Known as a philosopher

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Emerson

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3
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Was a teacher, but got fired quickly

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Thoreau

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Wrote nature and self-reliance

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Emerson

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5
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Wrote Billy Budd

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Herman Melville

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6
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Was born in Salem

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Hawthorne

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7
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Died poor despite his writing career

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Herman Melville

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8
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Was ashamed of Puritan hypocrisy

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Hawthorne

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9
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Who was the transcendentalist movement based on

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Immanuel Knat

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10
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Transcendentalists believe men were inherently ____.

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Good

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11
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To become one with nature you must become ______.

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A transparent eyeball

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12
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Self-reliance teaches man to be ____ and ____.

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Self-reliant; trust yourself

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13
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List two jobs Emerson had

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Poet and Preacher

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14
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According to Henry David Thoreau, he went into the woods to live _____.

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Deliberately

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15
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Thoreau wrote ______ and ______

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Walden; Civil Disobedience

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16
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Anti-transcendentalists believed that transcendentalists had a ____ outlook on life

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Rosy

17
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Who was the narrator in Moby Dick

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Ishmael

18
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Who is the captain in Moby Dick

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Ahab

19
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What are they hunting in Moby Dick

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The big white whale

20
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Why did Thoreau go to jail

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He refused to pay taxes that funded the Mexican war

21
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What is the ministers black veil symbolic for

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Hidden sins

22
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List Herman Melville’s three jobs he had to support his family

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Clerk, farmhand, and a teacher

23
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Graduated from Harvard

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Thoreau

24
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Who are the two most known anti-transcendentalists

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Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne

25
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What is a utopia

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A “perfect community” that sprang up during this time of perfection

26
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Give three anti-transcendentalist principles

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  1. Nature is indifferent, unforgiving, and often unexplainable
  2. People possess the potential for both good and evil
  3. The truths of existence are elusive
27
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What are the various levels of Moby Dick

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  1. The surface
  2. Vengeance and its psychological effects
  3. Man’s relationship with Nature

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