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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Richardson characterize the beginning of Emerson's relation with Margaret Fuller?
(a) Love at first sight.
(b) Shaky.
(c) Instantaneous respect.
(d) Wary distrust.

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

3. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's perspective on approaching Europe?
(a) He became a 'defensive American.'
(b) He became a free-floating individual without a country.
(c) He became a citizen of the world.
(d) He abandoned his identity.

4. How did "The Dial" change Emerson's writing?
(a) He was writing shorter works.
(b) He stopped writing almost completely.
(c) He was writing less.
(d) He was writing longer essays.

5. What stance did Emerson take on American literature?
(a) He said that it needed to learn its history from British literature.
(b) He celebrated it.
(c) He said that it began with him.
(d) He treated it as a narrow branch of British literature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What influence does Richardson say has helped Emerson's writing?

2. The Mind on Fire is the story of what?

3. What does Emerson try to connect ecstasy to in his essay on ecstasy?

4. What does Richardson say crowds expected from Emerson?

5. What publication did Emerson call a "living leaping Logos"?

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