Question 1: American Renaissance Literature Quiz

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Which pair of authors from the American Renaissance are most directly associated with the philosophical movement of Transcendentalism?

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Emerson is considered the leading voice of Transcendentalism, articulating its core tenets in essays like 'Nature.' Thoreau, influenced by Emerson, put Transcendentalist principles into practice, as chronicled in 'Walden.'

A. Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville

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B. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau

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C. Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson

D. Emerson and Hawthorne

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Which pair of authors from the American Renaissance are most directly associated with the philosophical movement of Transcendentalism?

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