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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 did travel in Italy affect Emerson?
(a) He was overcome with awe.
(b) He was rejuvenated.
(c) He became suspicious of Old World philosophy.
(d) He felt dwarfed by the history there.

2. What does Richardson say motivated Emerson's feelings about Brook Farm?
(a) Fear of intimacy.
(b) Difference of opinion with Ripley.
(c) Reticence about group enterprises.
(d) Aversion to financial risk.

3. What did Emerson praise in the essay based on Alec Therien?
(a) The representative man.
(b) The common man.
(c) The exceptional man.
(d) The different types of men.

4. How did Emerson characterize Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
(a) As a living instance of the world-spirit.
(b) As a man of the hour.
(c) As a voice of the people.
(d) As a citizen of the universe.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What idea of Hegel's did Emerson discover on returning from Europe?

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

3. What was Emerson's response to the invitation to join Brook Farm?

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

5. Who does Emerson say he had always considered his best friend?

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