Romantics Quiz A

Question 1

Thoreau says that he, “did not wish to live what was not life." Instead he wanted to. . . (39)

Accepted Answer

“I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life”

Question 2

What aspect of Astronomy does Whitman value most in “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer?”

Accepted Answer

Emotions and nature

Question 3

What does Emerson say about the advancement of technology?

Accepted Answer

“Society never advances. It recedes as fast as it gains.”

Question 4

Which statement would Emerson agree with most? (31)

Accepted Answer

Try to copy the way a child looks at the world

Question 5

What is Emerson saying in this quote: “The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.” (pp. 35)

Accepted Answer

Technology reduces the struggle necessary for character”

Question 6

What does Whitman mean when he says “My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air. . ." (44)

Accepted Answer

The author suggests that he is one with nature and its cycle.

Question 7

What does Emerson say about individuality?

Accepted Answer

“Insist on yourself; never imitate.”

Question 8

Thoreau mentioned that only house he had been an owner of before he went to Walden was what?

Accepted Answer

A Tent

Question 9

What does Whitman mean when he says "The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me”

Accepted Answer

Whitman has had good and bad experiences in his life and that's ok.

Question 10

Finish this quote: “The millions are awake enough for labor; but only one in a hundred million to . . ." (38)

Accepted Answer

A poetic or divine life

Question 11

"Forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and more faithless?)” How does Whitman consider himself?

Accepted Answer

Just the same as everyone else

Question 12

What state of being does Thoreau say he has never actually met anyone having accomplished?

Accepted Answer

“being fully Awake”

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