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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What imagery filled Emerson's prose and poems in 1836?
(a) Forging and birth.
(b) Health and insanity.
(c) Travel and arrival.
(d) Illness and death.

2. On whom did Emerson's reading focus after he graduated from Harvard?
(a) Platonic philosophers.
(b) Scottish Common Sense philosophers.
(c) Romantic poets.
(d) German Transcendentalists.

3. What was Emerson's frame of mind on returning from Europe?
(a) Unhappy, almost angry.
(b) Filled with doubts about his philosophy.
(c) Delighted, at the peak of his career.
(d) Disappointed, haunted by possibilities.

4. What brought Emerson to Europe?
(a) Invitations to write in Malta.
(b) Visits in Italy.
(c) A lecture tour in England.
(d) Curiosity to travel in Greece.

5. What did Emerson say about women's rights?
(a) That women had already proved themselves more than capable of equality with men.
(b) That they should have them, but that they did not want them.
(c) That advocacy was the only obstacle to full recognition; but that advocacy sapped every cause.
(d) That they should acquire them slowly and patiently.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what theme did Emerson's letters and journals begin to focus after Margaret Fuller's death?

2. What world literature did Emerson include in "The Dial?"

3. How did the event described in the Prologue change Emerson's life?

4. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's exterior personality?

5. How did Emerson's views on individuality and idealism respond to the immense cultural changes of the 1840s, according to Richardson?

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