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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Lidian name her first daughter?
(a) Ruth.
(b) Mary.
(c) Lydia.
(d) Ellen.

2. What does Emerson try to connect ecstasy to in his essay on ecstasy?
(a) History.
(b) Nature.
(c) Language.
(d) Sex.

3. What influence does Richardson say has helped Emerson's writing?
(a) His travels.
(b) His reading.
(c) His public speaking.
(d) His loss of Ellen Tucker.

4. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's reaction to Ellen's death?
(a) He says that he never got over it.
(b) He says that it made him start a life-long search for religious meaning.
(c) He says that he realized that he had not really been in love.
(d) He says that it gave him absolute faith in the beneficence of the creator.

5. What does Richardson say caused Emerson to become less innocent?
(a) Getting older.
(b) Waldo's death.
(c) His marriage.
(d) Ellen's death.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Emerson's career change after he opened Ellen's casket?

3. What imagery filled Emerson's prose and poems in 1836?

4. Who influenced Emerson during this turning point?

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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