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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Emerson travel from South Carolina?
(a) Europe.
(b) New York.
(c) New England.
(d) Florida.

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

3. Whose coffin did Emerson open toward the end of his life?
(a) Ellen's.
(b) Waldo's.
(c) Mary Moody Emerson's.
(d) His mother's.

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

5. What took Emerson to New York?
(a) Utopian schemes.
(b) Publishing.
(c) Travel for pleasure.
(d) Lecturing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Emerson become interested in after discovering Hafiz?

2. What does Richardson say likely caused Emerson's eye problems?

3. What limitation does Emerson describe in Christianity in his Divinity School Address?

4. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's feelings about the changes he made after Ellen's death?

5. Where does Richardson say Emerson and his brothers got their most profound education?

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