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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Nature.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did this turning point do for Emerson?
(a) It introduced him to people who could forward his career.
(b) It filled him with knowledge of the classics.
(c) It gave him the confidence to pursue his studies.
(d) It centered his attention on his own experience.

2. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's feelings on returning to America?
(a) Impatient to begin new work.
(b) Anxious about finding his family well.
(c) Depressed about coming home.
(d) Despairing about finding a career.

3. How are we introduced to Emerson in the Prologue?
(a) He is opening his dead wife's casket.
(b) He is writing his first major work.
(c) He is traveling South to recover his health.
(d) He is being celebrated as the poet of the people.

4. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's perspective on approaching Europe?
(a) He became a 'defensive American.'
(b) He became a citizen of the world.
(c) He became a free-floating individual without a country.
(d) He abandoned his identity.

5. Where did Emerson move, in advance of writing Nature?
(a) His step-grandfather Ezra Ripley's house.
(b) His brother's house.
(c) Mary Moody Emerson's house.
(d) His mother's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Emerson change after opening Ellen's casket?

2. What was Emerson lecturing on while he was courting Lidian?

3. What did Emerson do when he returned from the South?

4. What was Emerson's family's economic status when Emerson was in college?

5. What topic did Emerson lecture on after returning home from Europe?

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