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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Emerson travel from South Carolina?
(a) New York.
(b) Florida.
(c) Europe.
(d) New England.

2. Where in his career was Emerson, in the scene Richardson describes in the Prologue?
(a) At the beginning.
(b) At its peak.
(c) In its decline.
(d) At rock bottom.

3. How does Richardson describe Emerson as a young boy?
(a) Silly and unpromising.
(b) Talented and ambitious.
(c) Self-critical and motivated.
(d) Full of doubts.

4. What was Emerson's relationship with his reading?
(a) He tried to lose himself in his reading.
(b) He tried to claim the experiences contained in each book.
(c) He tried to inhabit each author's mind.
(d) He tried to remain independent of what he read.

5. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's reaction to Ellen's death?
(a) He says that he realized that he had not really been in love.
(b) He says that he never got over it.
(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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Richardson say likely caused Emerson's eye problems?

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

3. How was Emerson's 1837 speech at Harvard on the American Scholar received?

4. What does Richardson say was happening as Emerson and his brother Charles grew closer?

5. What does Emerson say reality is masked by?

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