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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What 1837 event related to slavery does Richardson say affected Emerson's emotional state?
(a) The passage of the Fugitive Slave Law.
(b) The Missouri compromise.
(c) The removal of the Cherokee.
(d) The murder of an abolitionist.

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

3. In what author did Emerson find guidance during Ellen Tucker's death?
(a) Hume.
(b) Wordsworth.
(c) de Staël.
(d) Gerondo.

4. What does Richardson say was revealed by the publication of Nature?
(a) That modern culture was confirming ancient religious knowledge.
(b) That new ideas of religion were coming from modern culture.
(c) That American religion was pantheistic.
(d) That American religion was essentially capitalistic.

5. How does Richardson characterize Emerson as a reader?
(a) Voracious.
(b) Narrow.
(c) Temperamental.
(d) Impatient.

Short Answer Questions

1. What began to appear in America as a result of Charles Fourier's work?

2. Who was Hafiz?

3. What does Richardson say caused Emerson to become less innocent?

4. With what point of Goethe's did Emerson conclude his lectures on great men?

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

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