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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Emerson change after opening Ellen's casket?
(a) He began to see the importance of scientific study.
(b) He decided to focus on the living.
(c) He began to believe in the life of the spirit.
(d) He became morbid in his writing.

2. How does Richardson say Emerson felt in response to the work he did for Carlyle?
(a) Motivated to write his own essays.
(b) Inspired to write poetry.
(c) Humbled so that he could not write.
(d) Afraid of failure and competition.

3. With what view of Emerson's did his friends disagree, according to Richardson?
(a) His focus on writing above all else.
(b) His isolationism.
(c) His positive view of Indian removal.
(d) His positive view of business.

4. By what work of Emerson's was Jones Very impassioned?
(a) Circles.
(b) The American Scholar.
(c) Nature.
(d) The Divinity School Address.

5. How was Emerson received in Europe?
(a) He was criticized.
(b) He was treated as a curiosity.
(c) He was treated as a celebrity.
(d) He was hardly noticed.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Richardson characterize "The Dial?"

2. What was the subject of Emerson's speech at Dartmouth?

3. How does Richardson characterize Sufism?

4. What limitation does Emerson describe in Christianity in his Divinity School Address?

5. In what cause did Emerson involve himself?

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