1. Question and Answer Samples and Techniques

2. Wrote “Because I Could not Stop for Death” Wrote “The Raven” Wrote Rip Van Winkle Wrote “Self Reliance” and “Days” Wrote “A Child Goes Forth” Walt Whitman Washington Irving Emily Dickinson Edgar Allen Poe Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. TRUE or FALSE? Ralph Waldo Emerson is the Father of Romanticism.

4. TRUE or FALSE? Henry David Thoreau is the practitioner of transcendentalism.

5. Two characteristics of Romanticism in Rip Van Winkle are….

6. Where does the transcendentalist look to as the source of truth? The Transcendentalist believes that there is divinity in each of us and therefore truth is found within.

7. TRUE or FALSE? Transcendentalism is an offshoot movement of the Romanticism movement.

8. What world religion and philosophy are the primary influences of Transcendentalism?

9. What term does the Transcendentalist use for God?

10. What duality do Christian readers have when reading and studying Emerson? Emerson is so well known because he is inspirational; however, he believes that man has within himself “particles of God” and is divine so the Christian would disagree with that. The Christian should keep the message but understand where truth and power come from—their relationship with Christ.

11. Who are the Dark Romantics?

12. TRUE or FALSE? Hawthorne is making a point that we should not try to power over and “fix” nature…It is best unspoiled..in “TBM”.