The goal of the 1840s community experiment known as Brook Farm ...

[LCritchfi]

Question 1

Who among the following was NOT a participant in American communal living?
 
  A. Nathaniel Hawthorne
 
  B. Walt Whitman
 
  C. George Ripley
 
  D. Robert Owen
 
  E. John Humphrey Noyes

Question 2

The transcendentalists
 
  A. understood the interconnectedness of species.
 
  B. understood the interconnectedness of species and made the first scientific studies on behalf of preserving the natural environment.
 
  C. anticipated the environmental movement of the twentieth century.
 
  D. made the first scientific studies on behalf of preserving the natural environment.
 
  E. None of these answers is correct.

Question 3

The transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau
 
  A. felt every individual should balance society's expectations with one's own instincts.
 
  B. was more conventional in his thinking than Ralph Waldo Emerson.
 
  C. argued Americans had a moral right to disobey laws considered unjust.
 
  D. argued that being part of society helped individuals to transcend their egotism.
 
  E. established a college for transcendentalism at Walden Pond.

Question 4

The goal of the 1840s community experiment known as Brook Farm was partly to
 
  A. allow individuals to live without any social limits on their behavior.
 
  B. eliminate social sexual discrimination through the practice of celibacy.
 
  C. show that communal living was more efficient and productive than family life.
 
  D. create a society where individuals did not have to work.
 
  E. permit every individual to have full opportunity for self-realization.

[Ahnyah]

Answer 1

B

Answer 2

C

Answer 3

C

Answer 4

E

[LCritchfi]

YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

[ricroger]

Gracias!