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

2. How did Emerson's views on individuality and idealism respond to the immense cultural changes of the 1840s, according to Richardson?
(a) They were tempered by doubts.
(b) They became more realistic.
(c) They became more optimistic.
(d) They stayed the same.

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

4. How old was Emerson when he met Thoreau?
(a) 39.
(b) 21.
(c) 35.
(d) 28.

5. In what way did Emerson try to form a commune?
(a) He moved to Brook Farm part-time.
(b) He helped utopianists make their plans for communes in New York.
(c) He tried to get friends to move to his neighborhood.
(d) He tried to interest others in buying shares in land to farm communally.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Richardson characterize the beginning of Emerson's relation with Margaret Fuller?

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

3. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's exterior personality?

4. Where did Emerson move, in advance of writing Nature?

5. What was Emerson's first son's name?

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