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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 does Richardson characterize Emerson as a reader?
(a) Impatient.
(b) Narrow.
(c) Temperamental.
(d) Voracious.

2. What was Emerson's first printed work?
(a) Nature.
(b) The Divinity School Address.
(c) Essays.
(d) A speech on Concord's bicentennial.

3. How does Richardson characterize Margaret Fuller's tone toward Emerson?
(a) Persistent.
(b) Submissive.
(c) Self-aggrandizing.
(d) Unctuous.

4. What was Emerson's first son's name?
(a) Edward.
(b) Charles.
(c) Waldo.
(d) Henry.

5. What vision did Emerson have in the Jardin de Plantes in Paris?
(a) He saw the future of science.
(b) He saw the unity of all life.
(c) He saw the cruelty of evolution.
(d) He saw the life of culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Emerson describe Ellen Tucker?

2. How does Richardson characterize the development of Emerson's writing in 1834?

3. How did Emerson characterize Samuel Taylor Coleridge?

4. Who came to live with Emerson after his brother Charles died?

5. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's feeling about the essay "The Poet?"

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