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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Nature.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who was Emerson reading at the time he fell in love with Lydia Jackson?
(a) Fuller.
(b) Goethe.
(c) Hegel.
(d) Hume.

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

5. What view was reaffirmed, for Emerson, in reading Jakob Boehme's "Aurora?"
(a) That divine grace is real.
(b) That Freedom is limited by Fate.
(c) That God is in one's own heart.
(d) That experience is man's only freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's reaction to Ellen's death?

2. What was Emerson lecturing on while he was courting Lidian?

3. What did Emerson do when he returned from the South?

4. What does Richardson say was the turning point in Emerson's life?

5. What was Emerson's relationship with his reading?

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