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$100 Question from Emerson What is Emerson’s full name?

$100 Answer from Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson

$200 Question from Emerson Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?

$200 Answer from Emerson Emerson’s father was a Unitarian Minister. He entered Harvard at age 14 and he became a pastor, an essayist, a poet, an orator, and a philosopher.

$300 Question from Emerson What was Emerson’s relationship with Thoreau?

$300 Answer from Emerson They had a Student-Teacher relationship. Emerson was Thoreau’s professor.

$400 Question from Emerson How are Emerson and Thoreau similar?

$400 Answer from Emerson They are both Transcendentalists and non-conformists. Emerson left his church after his wife died, and Thoreau left his teaching job because he was opposed to corporal punishment.

$500 Question from Emerson What is the Transcendental Club?

$500 Answer from Emerson The Transcendental Club was a group focused on individualism, intuition, and self-reliance in the 1830s and 40s. Emerson was the group’s founder and “Nature,” his lengthy essay, became the group’s unofficial statement of belief.

$100 Question from Thoreau What is Thoreau’s full name?

$100 Answer from Thoreau Henry David Thoreau

$200 Question from Thoreau Why did Thoreau quit his teaching job?

$200 Answer from Thoreau Thoreau quit his first teaching job because he was against corporal punishment.

$300 Question from Thoreau According to Thoreau, what kind of government is best?

$300 Answer from Thoreau According to Thoreau, best government is “government that governs least” and governs with people, not on its own.

$400 Question from Thoreau How did Thoreau “test” his Transcendental philosophy?

$400 Answer from Thoreau Thoreau lived in a cabin he built for two years at Walden Pond to “test” his Transcendental philosophy. He wrote “Walden” as a result of this experience.

$500 Question from Thoreau Why did Thoreau not pay taxes?

$500 Answer from Thoreau Thoreau did not pay taxes because he was opposed to the Mexican War. He justified this because he was against violence and he did not want to support a government that made its decisions without asking the people.

$100 Question from Transcendentalism What do Transcendentalism and Romanticism have in common?

$100 Answer from Transcendentalism Transcendentalism and Romanticism both have a reverence for nature.

$200 Question from Transcendentalism Name three elements of Transcendental belief.

$200 Answer from Transcendentalism Three elements of Transcendental belief are self-reliance, individualism, and intuition.

$300 Question from Transcendentalism According to Transcendental belief, what happens when people start acquiring too much stuff (materialistic wealth)?

$300 Answer from Transcendentalism According to Transcendental belief, people start losing their integrity and sense of self as a result of materialistic wealth. They become “slaves to the economy.” Greed corrupts good people.

$400 Question from Transcendentalism What is the Universal Mind?

$400 Answer from Transcendentalism The Universal Mind is an intelligence which governs the Universe. Transcendentalists believe God is in nature and in man.

$500 Question from Transcendentalism Both Emerson and Thoreau are Transcendentalists, but how are they different?

$500 Answer from Transcendentalism Emerson is a theorist. He likes nature but enjoys the comforts of civilization. Thoreau is an activist. He lives what he writes about. (Remember what Emerson said to Thoreau: “You live what I talk about.”)

$100 Question from Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Why is Thoreau in jail?

$100 Answer from Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Thoreau is in jail because he refuses to do as society tells him and pay taxes.

$200 Question from Night Thoreau Spent in Jail What is “huckleberrying”?

$200 Answer from Night Thoreau Spent in Jail “Huckleberrying” is searching for ideas wherever you might find them. Many times that is somewhere you don’t expect.

$300 Question from Night Thoreau Spent in Jail How does Thoreau’s brother John die?

$300 Answer from Night Thoreau Spent in Jail John cuts himself with a rusty razor, leading to lockjaw (tetanus).

$400 Question from Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Who is Williams? Why does he have the same first name as Thoreau?

$400 Answer from Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Williams is a runaway slave Thoreau meets while he is hoeing his bean patch. He takes Thoreau’s first name, Henry, because Thoreau is the first person to treat him like a human being.

$500 Question from Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Who is Edward and why is he important to Thoreau?

$500 Answer from Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Edward is the Emersons’ son. He and Henry become close and Edward wishes that Henry were his father. Thoreau wishes the same but does not say it.

$100 Question from Quotes What is a quote by Thoreau that fits in with the Transcendentalist belief of individualism?

$100 Answer from Quotes “If I am not myself, who will I be?”

$200 Question from Quotes Explain the quote “Fire inside burns hotter than fire outside.”

$200 Answer from Quotes This quote shows that a man’s determination is stronger than a flame or a rock. To be able to do something, and succeed, you just have to want to do it very much. Then, no obstacles can stop you.

$300 Question from Quotes Why did Thoreau go to the woods to live for two years?

$300 Answer from Quotes Thoreau said “I went into the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

$400 Question from Quotes Finish this quote: “The only people who get any place interesting are…”

$400 Answer from Quotes …the people who get LOST.”

$500 Question from Quotes What conflict is expressed in this quote: “Oh, it’s very simple for a hermit to sit off at a distance and proclaim exactly how things should be. But what if everybody did that? Where would we be?”

$500 Answer from Quotes The conflict is between SAYING what you believe and ACTING on what you believe.

Final Jeopardy Show your understanding of Thoreau’s philosophy by completing this quote: “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me ______________.”

Final Jeopardy Answer TRUTH