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

2. Which of Emerson's friendships was tested on Emerson's return from Europe?
(a) Sturgis.
(b) Fuller.
(c) Thoreau.
(d) Hedge.

3. Who is Osman?
(a) Emerson's aunt.
(b) Emerson's servant.
(c) Emerson's daemon.
(d) Emerson's nephew.

4. Who was Emerson reading at the time he fell in love with Lydia Jackson?
(a) Hume.
(b) Goethe.
(c) Fuller.
(d) Hegel.

5. What idea of the author's does Richardson say Emerson followed "surprisingly far?"
(a) Disregard for individuality.
(b) Doubt about the possibility of transcendent experience.
(c) Faith in evolutionary processes.
(d) Respect for historical determinism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Emerson's meeting with Carlyle a "white day in his years"?

2. How did Emerson characterize Samuel Taylor Coleridge?

3. Who does Richardson credit with the birth of American Transcendentalism?

4. What did Margaret Fuller ask Emerson for in 1840?

5. When did Emerson meet Lydia Jackson?

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