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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Children of the Fire.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Richardson characterize Margaret Fuller's tone toward Emerson?
(a) Submissive.
(b) Self-aggrandizing.
(c) Persistent.
(d) Unctuous.

2. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's reaction to Ellen's death?
(a) He says that he never got over it.
(b) He says that he realized that he had not really been in love.
(c) He says that it made him start a life-long search for religious meaning.
(d) He says that it gave him absolute faith in the beneficence of the creator.

3. How did Emerson describe Ellen Tucker?
(a) Beautiful, with a vibrant spirit.
(b) Sensitive and religious.
(c) Strong-willed and supportive.
(d) Rhapsodic and angelic.

4. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's feeling about the essay "The Poet?"
(a) He was afraid to believe in his own prophecy.
(b) He thought it was one of his best.
(c) He felt more uncertain of that essay than any other.
(d) He was afraid of the censure it would draw.

5. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's response to his son's death?
(a) He was destroyed.
(b) He was assured of an afterlife.
(c) He was devastated.
(d) He was inspired.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what cause did Emerson involve himself?

2. What vision did Emerson have in the Jardin de Plantes in Paris?

3. How does Richardson characterize the beginning of Emerson's relation with Margaret Fuller?

4. What does Richardson say was revealed by the publication of Nature?

5. What did Emerson suffer in 1837?

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