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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Emerson's career change after he opened Ellen's casket?
(a) He published argumentative tracts questioning the reality of religious rituals.
(b) He devoted himself more than ever to his preaching.
(c) He was ordained.
(d) He left the church.

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

3. On whom did Emerson's reading focus after he graduated from Harvard?
(a) Platonic philosophers.
(b) German Transcendentalists.
(c) Romantic poets.
(d) Scottish Common Sense philosophers.

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

5. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's reaction to Ellen's death?
(a) He says that he never got over it.
(b) He says that it made him start a life-long search for religious meaning.
(c) He says that he realized that he had not really been in love.
(d) He says that it gave him absolute faith in the beneficence of the creator.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Emerson's religious beliefs tending toward, at the time of his ordination?

2. In what religious sect was Edward Taylor active?

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

4. What influence does Richardson say has helped Emerson's writing?

5. How does Richardson characterize Margaret Fuller's tone toward Emerson?

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