transcendentalism test

Question 1

Propose a belief in a higher reality than that found in _________ ________ or in a higher kind of knowledge than that achieved by _____ __________

Answer 1

1. Sense experience

2. Human Reason

Question 2

suggests that every individual is capable of discovering this ______ _____ on his or her own, through ________

Answer 2

1. higher truth

2. intuition

Question 3

transcendentalism is influenced by ______

Answer 3

deism

Question 4

Deists hold that a certain kind of religious knowledge is either_______ __ ______ ___________ or accessible through ____ __________ __ __________

Answer 4

1. inherent in each person

2. the exercise of reason

Question 5

Transcendentalism also involved a rejection of strict _________ religious attitudes
unlike them, the transcendentalists saw humans and nature as possessing an innate _________

Answer 5

1. puritan

2. goodness

Question 6

Man is… (puritan)

Answer 6

sinful

Question 7

Man is… (enlightenment)

Answer 7

blank slate

Question 8

Man is…. (transcendentalists)

Answer 8

good

Question 9

Transcendentalist writers expressed __________-________ feelings toward nature.

Answer 9

semi-religious

Question 10

they saw a direct connection between the ______ and the _________ _______

Answer 10

1. universe

2. individual soul

Question 11

purpose of all life was union with the ______ - a convergence of the individual, God, and Nature

Answer 11

over soul

Question 12

Beliefs : _______, not reason, is the highest human faculty

Answer 12

intuition

Question 13

Beliefs : a rejection ______

Answer 13

Materialism

Question 14

Belief : _______ is the path to spiritual greatness

Answer 14

simplicity

Question 15

Belief : _______ is the source of truth and inspiration

Answer 15

Nature

Question 16

Belief : non-conformity, _________, and self reliance

Answer 16

individuality

Question 17

CD : the goal of this essay is to urge ________, ________, nonviolent resistant to government policies to which an individual is morally opposed

Answer 17

1. passive
2. nonviolent
   3.

Question 18

CD was written after Thoreau spent a night in ____

Answer 18

jail

Question 19

why did he go to jail

Answer 19

refused to pay a poll tax

Question 20

SR : Trust ______

Answer 20

thyself

Question 21

SR : Whoso would be a man, must be a ____”

Answer 21

nonconformist

Question 22

SR : nothing is at last sacred but ________________________________

Answer 22

The integrity of your own mind