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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) New England.
(b) Europe.
(c) New York.
(d) Florida.

2. What did this turning point do for Emerson?
(a) It centered his attention on his own experience.
(b) It introduced him to people who could forward his career.
(c) It gave him the confidence to pursue his studies.
(d) It filled him with knowledge of the classics.

3. How did the event described in the Prologue change Emerson's life?
(a) He secluded himself to write his first work.
(b) He gave up his independence and settled down.
(c) His religious beliefs took him away from the church.
(d) He retreated into solitude.

4. Who does Richardson credit with the birth of American Transcendentalism?
(a) Bronson Alcott.
(b) Jones Very.
(c) Emerson.
(d) Frederic Hedge.

5. How are we introduced to Emerson in the Prologue?
(a) He is traveling South to recover his health.
(b) He is writing his first major work.
(c) He is opening his dead wife's casket.
(d) He is being celebrated as the poet of the people.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where in his career was Emerson, in the scene Richardson describes in the Prologue?

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

5. Who died in 1834?

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