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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Children of the Fire.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. With what view of Emerson's did his friends disagree, according to Richardson?
(a) His positive view of business.
(b) His positive view of Indian removal.
(c) His focus on writing above all else.
(d) His isolationism.

4. Who died in 1834?
(a) Mary Moody Emerson.
(b) Emerson's brother Edward.
(c) Emerson's brother Charles.
(d) Emerson's mother.

5. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's relation to other writers?
(a) He assimilates the best part of each work, and discards the rest.
(b) He is terrified before each of them, and has to figure out how to defend himself against their work.
(c) He is greater than them, and finds himself in each of them.
(d) He is afraid of his own attraction to others' ideas, and learns to protect against his identification with others.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Richardson characterize 1844 in Emerson's life?

2. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's works after he turned forty?

3. What was the Transcendental Club?

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

5. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's household in 1835-1836?

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