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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Emerson travel from South Carolina?
(a) Europe.
(b) New York.
(c) New England.
(d) Florida.

2. What practice did Emerson begin in college?
(a) Writing poetry.
(b) Keeping a journal.
(c) Sending money to his mother.
(d) Holding dinner parties for intellectuals.

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

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

5. Where did Emerson move, in advance of writing Nature?
(a) His step-grandfather Ezra Ripley's house.
(b) His mother's house.
(c) Mary Moody Emerson's house.
(d) His brother's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what author did Emerson find guidance during Ellen Tucker's death?

2. How did Emerson describe his experience of Ellen's death?

3. In what way did Emerson share a faith with Mary Rotch and the Quakers?

4. Where does Richardson say Emerson's interest in religion came from?

5. What was Emerson reading of Bronson Alcott's, after settling down with Lidian?

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