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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What theme does Richardson say Emerson began to write about as he turned forty?
(a) Mysticism.
(b) Political resistance.
(c) Idealism.
(d) Isolation.

2. What was Emerson's first son's name?
(a) Edward.
(b) Waldo.
(c) Charles.
(d) Henry.

3. What began to appear in America as a result of Charles Fourier's work?
(a) New style hats.
(b) Poetry magazines.
(c) Organized unions.
(d) Communes.

4. What imagery filled Emerson's prose and poems in 1836?
(a) Illness and death.
(b) Travel and arrival.
(c) Health and insanity.
(d) Forging and birth.

5. Who died in 1834?
(a) Emerson's mother.
(b) Emerson's brother Charles.
(c) Emerson's brother Edward.
(d) Mary Moody Emerson.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to Richardson, what feeling would stay with Emerson for the rest of his life, after the Norton affair?

4. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's exterior personality?

5. What does Emerson say reality is masked by?

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