Question

A poem that draws on a text from this religion asks, “how am I theirs / if they cannot hold me / but I hold them?” at the end of an “Earth-Song.” (10[1])A figure from this religion titles a poem that describes “the subtle ways / I keep, and pass, and turn again” (10[2])and claims “I am the doubter and the doubt.” A book’s narrator notes, (10[1])“in the morning (10[2])I bathe my intellect” in a text from this religion in the chapter “The Pond in Winter.” A concept from (10[1])this religion informed the author’s conception of unity in the essay (-5[1])“The Over-Soul.” (-5[1])A term (10[1]-5[3])referencing (10[2]-5[1])this religion’s (10[1]-5[1])culture was coined (10[1])by Oliver (10[1])Wendell Holmes, Sr. (10[1]-5[1])to describe (10[1])families like the Lowells and the (10[1]0[2])Cabots. (10[8])For (10[1])10 points, (10[2])the Transcendentalists (10[3])were influenced (10[1])by what (-5[1])Eastern religion (-5[2])whose society inspired the term “Boston Brahmin”? (10[2])■END■ (10[22])

ANSWER: Hinduism [accept Vaishnavism; accept Hindu caste system] (The first two poems are “Hamatreya” and “Brahma,” both by Ralph Waldo Emerson. The book is Walden.)
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