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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did Ellen Tucker and Emerson know each other before they were engaged?
(a) Five years.
(b) Two years.
(c) Three years.
(d) Less than a year.

2. What idea of Emerson's influenced Richardson's biography?
(a) That the lives of great mean can tell us about all men.
(b) That some men's lives define the extremes of human experience.
(c) That men are best described by the women in their lives.
(d) That men can only be known through their historical context.

3. What were Emerson's religious beliefs tending toward, at the time of his ordination?
(a) Doubts regarding divine grace.
(b) Certainty that divine grace is the only avenue to redemption.
(c) Uncertainty about the nature of the divine.
(d) Certainty that the self provides the only access to divinity.

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

5. How did Emerson change after opening Ellen's casket?
(a) He became morbid in his writing.
(b) He began to see the importance of scientific study.
(c) He decided to focus on the living.
(d) He began to believe in the life of the spirit.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what religious sect was Edward Taylor active?

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

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

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

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