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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. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's feelings on returning to America?
(a) Despairing about finding a career.
(b) Impatient to begin new work.
(c) Depressed about coming home.
(d) Anxious about finding his family well.

2. How did Andrews Norton review Emerson's Dartmouth lecture?
(a) Bitterly.
(b) Harshly.
(c) Jubilantly.
(d) Slyly.

3. In what way did Emerson share a faith with Mary Rotch and the Quakers?
(a) Both believed that religion was about to be reinvented for modern times.
(b) Both believed that the inner spirit took precedence over the Bible and external religion.
(c) Both believed in the unity of the world-spirit.
(d) Both believed in the necessity of deep and prolonged religious study.

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

5. What did Lidian name her first daughter?
(a) Lydia.
(b) Ruth.
(c) Mary.
(d) Ellen.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Richardson characterize "The Dial?"

2. When did Emerson meet Lydia Jackson?

3. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's feelings?

4. By what work of Emerson's was Jones Very impassioned?

5. What was the subject of Emerson's speech at Dartmouth?

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