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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Science of Liberty.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What topic did Emerson lecture on after returning home from Europe?
(a) Literature.
(b) Religion.
(c) Biography.
(d) Science.

2. How did Margaret Fuller Ossoli die?
(a) Murder.
(b) Shipwreck.
(c) Illness.
(d) Childbirth.

3. In what realization of Pythagoras' was Emerson interested?
(a) That change was the only constant.
(b) That all things are made of material.
(c) That everything is spirit.
(d) That not everything was in flux.

4. By what work of Emerson's was Jones Very impassioned?
(a) The Divinity School Address.
(b) The American Scholar.
(c) Nature.
(d) Circles.

5. What publication did Emerson call a "living leaping Logos"?
(a) Nature.
(b) Fuller's translation of Eckermann's "Conversations with Goethe."
(c) Alcott's "Conversations with Children about the Gospels."
(d) Hedge's manifesto.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Richardson say Emerson felt in response to the work he did for Carlyle?

2. Where did Emerson travel after returning from Europe?

3. What event threw Emerson into despair in 1840?

4. How does Richardson characterize the year 1834 in Emerson's life?

5. What did Lidian name her first daughter?

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