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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what cause did Emerson involve himself?
(a) Women's suffrage.
(b) Preventing Cruelty to Animals.
(c) Anti-slavery.
(d) Indian affairs.

2. Where in his career was Emerson, in the scene Richardson describes in the Prologue?
(a) At its peak.
(b) In its decline.
(c) At the beginning.
(d) At rock bottom.

3. What was Emerson's relationship with his reading?
(a) He tried to lose himself in his reading.
(b) He tried to remain independent of what he read.
(c) He tried to claim the experiences contained in each book.
(d) He tried to inhabit each author's mind.

4. What event threw Emerson into despair in 1840?
(a) The death of his son Waldo.
(b) The death of his brother Charles.
(c) Lidian's illness.
(d) The death of Mary Moody Emerson.

5. What began to appear in America as a result of Charles Fourier's work?
(a) Poetry magazines.
(b) Organized unions.
(c) New style hats.
(d) Communes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Richardson characterize the development of Emerson's writing in 1834?

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

3. What was Emerson reading of Bronson Alcott's, after settling down with Lidian?

4. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's works after he turned forty?

5. On whom did Emerson's reading focus after he graduated from Harvard?

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