Question 1 (5 points) question 1 unsaved
transcendentalism like ralph waldo emerson believed that

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a fulfilled person is one who has followed his or her conscience.

society offers the best way to commune with the divine soul.

humans should pay attention to the guilt within themselves.

objects of nature die, but civilization lasts forever.

question 2 (4 points) question 2 unsaved
in thoreau's view, what would happen to people if they rejected conformity?

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they would feel emotionally isolated.

the would live more fully.

they would recognize the value of cities.

they would earn public respect.

question 3 (5 points) question 3 unsaved
transcendentalist like emerson and thoreau both believed that society

question 3 options:

encourages people to be unique.

is the best place to gain an education.

prevents people from being free.

provides people with important opportunities.

question 4 (4 points) question 4 unsaved
in the poem "each and all", the speaker takes objects out of their natural habitats. which item below is not taken out of it's natural habitat?

question 4 options:

a sparrow

a seashell

a wife

a river

question 5 (4 points) question 5 unsaved
the lover watched his graceful maid,
as 'mid the virgin train she stayed,
nor knew her beauty's best attire
was woven still by the snow-white choir.
at last she came to his hermitage,
like the bird from the woodlands to the cage; —
the gay enchantment was undone,
a gentle wife, but fairy none.

reread the lines above from "each and all". what happens to the wife the lover brings home?

question 5 options:

she became more beautiful.

she became more gentle.

she loses her enchantment when removed from her woodland home.

she loses her voice to sing.

question 6 (4 points) question 6 unsaved
then i said, "i covet truth;
beauty is unripe childhood's cheat;
i leave it behind with the games of youth: " —
as i spoke, beneath my feet
the ground-pine curled its pretty wreath,
running over the club-moss burrs;
i inhaled the violet's breath;
around me stood the oaks and firs;
pine-cones and acorns lay on the ground;
over me soared the eternal sky,
full of light and of deity;
again i saw, again i heard,
the rolling river, the morning bird; —
beauty through my senses stole;
i yielded myself to the perfect whole.

in the passage above, what below does the speaker not see, smell, and hear after he vows to seek truth?

question 6 options:

moss on trees

a child

flowers

a rolling river

question 7 (4 points) question 7 unsaved
in "each and all", what does the speaker discover?

question 7 options:

all elements of creation are part of "the perfect whole"

all elements of creation should be separated from each other

all elements of creation are "fair and good alone"

all elements of creation "sang to my eye"

question 8 (4 points) question 8 unsaved
what did thoreau seek to do at walden pond?

question 8 options:

learn to garden

contemplate redemption

escape his enemies

live deeply and consciously

question 9 (4 points) question 9 unsaved
what is the main natural element in the quotation below from walden?

"time is but the stream i go a-fishing in. i drink at it; but while i drink i see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. its thin current slides away, but eternity remains."

question 9 options:

time

heaven

a fish

a stream

question 10 (4 points) question 10 unsaved
what does the natural element in the quote below from walden represent?

"time is but the stream i go a-fishing in. i drink at it; but while i drink i see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. its thin current slides away, but eternity remains."

question 10 options:

time and how it "slides away"

fishing and how it takes up so much time

eternity and how it's not real

a stream and how it's small