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The philosophies and literature of the Transcendental movement differ from Romantic qualities more in degree than in kind.

This Transcendentalist’s desire for social reform took expression in educational reform, introducing P.E, the study of nature, and field trips into the curriculum.

In Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown,” who is Faith?

Hawthorne and his wife Sophia moved into a house owned by Emerson’s family, the Old Manse, in Concord. There, Hawthorne became part of the important literary milieu that included Thoreau, Fuller, and ______________.

Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener” can be read as

Transcendentalists also agreed that the conduit to truth was within and located it particularly in ______________ .

Which of the following is the correct chronology?

In Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown,” who is Goody Cloyse?

In Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener,” the narrator employs three men before Bartleby.  Who are they?

His paternal grandfather participated in the Boston Tea Party.