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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What career paths was Emerson torn between?
(a) Law and teaching.
(b) Farming and writing.
(c) Preaching and law.
(d) Preaching and writing.

2. 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 was afraid of the censure it would draw.
(d) He felt more uncertain of that essay than any other.

3. What view was reaffirmed, for Emerson, in reading Jakob Boehme's "Aurora?"
(a) That divine grace is real.
(b) That experience is man's only freedom.
(c) That God is in one's own heart.
(d) That Freedom is limited by Fate.

4. What does Richardson say is Emerson's last characteristic book?
(a) The 1844 Essays.
(b) Essays 1844.
(c) His book on England.
(d) Representative Men.

5. What was Emerson's first printed work?
(a) Nature.
(b) Essays.
(c) The Divinity School Address.
(d) A speech on Concord's bicentennial.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Emerson begin to write about after returning to America?

2. How does Emerson describe war in "The Peace Principle?"

3. What was the title of Emerson's first sermon?

4. On what theme did Emerson's letters and journals begin to focus after Margaret Fuller's death?

5. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's response to his son's death?

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