Deck 15: Nature

Question 1

____ 7. The Roman poet Lucretius predicted that the world would end in a violent explosion.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

____ 8. Joseph Conrad created the iconic character of Frankenstein's monster.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. environmentalist
2. Frankenstein
3. Native Americans
4. daemon
5. Al Gore
6. Heart of Darkness
7. deism
8. Romanticism
9. naturalist
10. William Wordsworth
11. Henry David Thoreau
12. annexation of Texas
13. Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. The Tempest
15. Carl Sandburg
___ nature as freedom

Answer 3

8

Question 4

____ 5. According to Henry David Thoreau, most city dwellers lived lives of quiet desperation.

Question 5

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. environmentalist
2. Frankenstein
3. Native Americans
4. daemon
5. Al Gore
6. Heart of Darkness
7. deism
8. Romanticism
9. naturalist
10. William Wordsworth
11. Henry David Thoreau
12. annexation of Texas
13. Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. The Tempest
15. Carl Sandburg
___ criticized urban life as "quiet desperation"

Question 6

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. environmentalist
2. Frankenstein
3. Native Americans
4. daemon
5. Al Gore
6. Heart of Darkness
7. deism
8. Romanticism
9. naturalist
10. William Wordsworth
11. Henry David Thoreau
12. annexation of Texas
13. Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. The Tempest
15. Carl Sandburg
___ supposedly justified by Manifest Destiny

Question 7

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. environmentalist
2. Frankenstein
3. Native Americans
4. daemon
5. Al Gore
6. Heart of Darkness
7. deism
8. Romanticism
9. naturalist
10. William Wordsworth
11. Henry David Thoreau
12. annexation of Texas
13. Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. The Tempest
15. Carl Sandburg
___ Joseph Conrad

Question 8

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. environmentalist
2. Frankenstein
3. Native Americans
4. daemon
5. Al Gore
6. Heart of Darkness
7. deism
8. Romanticism
9. naturalist
10. William Wordsworth
11. Henry David Thoreau
12. annexation of Texas
13. Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. The Tempest
15. Carl Sandburg
___ nature as a clock

Question 9

____ 4. In Shakespeare's As You Like It, Jaques refuses to return to urban civilization.

Question 10

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. environmentalist
2. Frankenstein
3. Native Americans
4. daemon
5. Al Gore
6. Heart of Darkness
7. deism
8. Romanticism
9. naturalist
10. William Wordsworth
11. Henry David Thoreau
12. annexation of Texas
13. Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. The Tempest
15. Carl Sandburg
___ Nature "rolls through all things."

Question 11

____ 10. Walt Whitman and Carl Sandburg praised big cities in their poetry.

Question 12

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. environmentalist
2. Frankenstein
3. Native Americans
4. daemon
5. Al Gore
6. Heart of Darkness
7. deism
8. Romanticism
9. naturalist
10. William Wordsworth
11. Henry David Thoreau
12. annexation of Texas
13. Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. The Tempest
15. Carl Sandburg
___ the Chicago Attitude

Question 13

____ 9. Philosopher Baruch Spinoza argued that God and nature were two separate entities.

Question 14

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. environmentalist
2. Frankenstein
3. Native Americans
4. daemon
5. Al Gore
6. Heart of Darkness
7. deism
8. Romanticism
9. naturalist
10. William Wordsworth
11. Henry David Thoreau
12. annexation of Texas
13. Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. The Tempest
15. Carl Sandburg
___ It warned against meddling with Nature.

Question 15

____ 2. One definition of nature is "the system of laws governing the universe."

Question 16

____ 6. Wordsworth and Emerson believed that nature itself was an inconvenient truth.

Question 17

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. environmentalist
2. Frankenstein
3. Native Americans
4. daemon
5. Al Gore
6. Heart of Darkness
7. deism
8. Romanticism
9. naturalist
10. William Wordsworth
11. Henry David Thoreau
12. annexation of Texas
13. Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. The Tempest
15. Carl Sandburg
___ Its fantasticisland is controlled by a magician.

Question 18

____ 3. In Heart of Darkness, Kurtz is a benevolent magician governing a faraway island.

Question 19

____ 1. The Decay of Nature Theory predicted that eventually the universe would slow down and come to a complete halt.

Question 20

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. Use none more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. environmentalist
2. Frankenstein
3. Native Americans
4. daemon
5. Al Gore
6. Heart of Darkness
7. deism
8. Romanticism
9. naturalist
10. William Wordsworth
11. Henry David Thoreau
12. annexation of Texas
13. Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. The Tempest
15. Carl Sandburg
___ global warming

Question 21

The Buddhist term for the force that rules the universe is

A) Nature
B) the Dharma
C) the Tao
D) the daemon
E) Brahman

Question 22

____ 14. Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, believed that undisturbed nature is good at heart.

Question 23

____ 11. For Thoreau, nature was the road to moral decay.

Question 24

The movement that equated nature with freedom:

A) romanticism
B) deism
C) naturalism
D) environmentalism
E) existentialism

Question 25

In Joseph Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness, Marlowe is assigned to

A) start a housing development on Walden Pond.
B) find a solution to global warming.
C) reestablish contact with a missing trader in the Congo.
D) start a gaming casino in Africa.
E) encourage the citizens of Chicago to decrease their use of electricity.

Question 26

Who wrote "The stars awaken a common reverence, because they are always present"?

A) Henry David Thoreau
B) David Kwiat
C) Crowfoot of the Blackfoot nation
D) Ralph Waldo Emerson
E) Al Gore

Question 27

In As You Like It,the Forest of Arden is Shakespeare's version of

A) hell.
B) the Garden of Eden.
C) purgatory.
D) Walden Pond.
E) heaven.

Question 28

When poet Carl Sandburg wrote "They tell me you are wicked and I believe them," he is referring to

A) civilization
B) Mary Shelley
C) the daemon
D) nature
E) Chicago

Question 29

The Roman poet Lucretius predicted, in Ofthe Nature of Things, that

A) man would someday conquer nature.
B) the world will end in a violent explosion.
C) man and nature will someday be as one.
D) the world will wind down like a clock.
E) more advance nations would become world leaders.

Question 30

____ 15. The Wolf at Twilight is a sequel to Frankenstein that centers on a werewolf who is basically good but is persecuted for being different.

Question 31

____ 12. Romantic artists invested nature with the awesome power that earlier artists had attributed to God.

Question 32

The essay "Nature" was written in 1836 by

A) Carl Sandburg
B) Henry David Thoreau
C) Mary Shelley
D) William Wordsworth
E) Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 33

The quotation "Confound the man! He had kicked the very earth to pieces" refers to which character?

A) Jaques
B) Prospero
C) Frankenstein
D) Marlowe
E) Kurtz

Question 34

Warning of the deadly effects of the pesticide DDT:

A) Silent Spring
B) Moby-Dick
C) Heart of Darkness
D) The Tempest
E) An Inconvenient Truth

Question 35

Who wrote "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation"?

A) Henry David Thoreau
B) Ralph Waldo Emerson
C) Herman Melville
D) John Keats
E) Winslow Homer

Question 36

Belief that nature had been created by God and then left to run by itself:

A) naturalism
B) deism
C) Manifest Destiny
D) romanticism
E) the modern Prometheus theory

Question 37

His dying words were "The Horror! The Horror!"

A) Prospero
B) Jaques
C) Kurtz
D) Frankenstein's monster
E) Captain Ahab

Question 38

Which is not one of the chapter definitions of nature?

A) the system of laws governing the universe
B) a reference to the nonurban world
C) an indwelling spirit or mind governing the universe
D) an obligation to be a role model for less advanced nations
E) the environment and the ecosystem within the universe

Question 39

Native Americans enjoy a long tradition of

A) Manifest Destiny.
B) a spiritual relationship with nature.
C) gaming casinos.
D) Romanticism.
E) voluntary separation from nature.

Question 40

____ 13. Melville's Moby-Dick concerns the tragic attempt of one man to destroy a white polar bear.