5 Written Questions

1. The Blithedale Romance
2. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of littleminds"
3. "Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!"
4. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
5. "I heartily accept the motto -- that the government is best which governs least"

5 Matching Questions

1. Alcott
2. Slavery
   Education
   Women's rights
3. Cole
4. Hawthorne
5. Longfellow

1. a The House of the Seven Gables
2. b the three reform movements prominent in the American Renaissance
3. c badly burned in a fire
4. d wrote Little Women
5. e the artist of Kaaterskill Falls

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry"
   1. Dickenson
   2. Emerson
   3. Pequod
   4. Dissenters
2. "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
   1. Thoreau (Walden)
   2. Hawthorne
   3. Brahmains
   4. Thoreau
3. "Paul Revere's Ride"
   1. Holmes
   2. Fuller
   3. Lowell
   4. Longfellow
4. The Vision of Sir Launfal
   1. Lowell
   2. Longfellow
   3. Thoreau
   4. Cole
5. the artist of photographs of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War
   1. Brady
   2. Brahmains
   3. Ahab
   4. Cole

5 True/False Questions

1. Transcendentalism → belief that the basic truths of the universe lie beyond the knowledge we obtain from our senses; believed by Emerson and Thoreau

   True        False

2. Dickenson → Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd assembled this writer's collection

   True        False

3. Dickenson → "Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church"

   True        False

4. Emerson → "To be great is to be misunderstood"

   True        False

5. Holmes → the artist of Kaaterskill Falls

   True        False