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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What publication did Emerson call a "living leaping Logos"?
(a) Hedge's manifesto.
(b) Fuller's translation of Eckermann's "Conversations with Goethe."
(c) Alcott's "Conversations with Children about the Gospels."
(d) Nature.

2. How long did Ellen Tucker and Emerson know each other before they were engaged?
(a) Five years.
(b) Two years.
(c) Three years.
(d) Less than a year.

3. What were Emerson's religious beliefs tending toward, at the time of his ordination?
(a) Certainty that divine grace is the only avenue to redemption.
(b) Uncertainty about the nature of the divine.
(c) Certainty that the self provides the only access to divinity.
(d) Doubts regarding divine grace.

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

5. How did Emerson describe his experience of Ellen's death?
(a) It forced him to question his beliefs.
(b) It was a turning point.
(c) It was a second birth.
(d) It was a death for him as well.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Richardson say Emerson and his brothers got their most profound education?

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

3. Where did Emerson travel from South Carolina?

4. What trouble did the Emerson family encounter around the time of Emerson's engagement?

5. What was the title of Emerson's first sermon?

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