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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Richardson say was happening as Emerson and his brother Charles grew closer?
(a) Charles was expecting his first child.
(b) Charles' health was declining.
(c) Charles was subscribing to Emerson's new confidence about religion.
(d) Charles was leaving the church.

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

3. What was the title of Emerson's first sermon?
(a) "Self-Reliance."
(b) "Pray without Ceasing."
(c) "The Wreck of All Earthly Good."
(d) "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."

4. What troubled Emerson during his travels to the South?
(a) His religious faith.
(b) His divinity studies.
(c) Slavery.
(d) His engagement to Ellen Tucker.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What stance did Emerson take on American literature?

2. Who did NOT join Emerson where he was writing in 1834?

3. What did this turning point do for Emerson?

4. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's relationship with his brothers?

5. What idea of Emerson's influenced Richardson's biography?

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