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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where was Emerson going on Christmas Day, 1832?
(a) New York.
(b) Europe.
(c) Boston.
(d) South Carolina.

4. In what religious sect was Edward Taylor active?
(a) Unitarian.
(b) Shouting Methodist.
(c) Calvinist.
(d) Baptist.

5. What was Emerson's family's economic status when Emerson was in college?
(a) Poor but distinguished.
(b) Poor and unknown.
(c) Wealthy and well-recognized.
(d) Illustrious.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Emerson change after opening Ellen's casket?

2. How long did Ellen Tucker and Emerson know each other before they were engaged?

3. What troubled Emerson during his travels to the South?

4. Where does Richardson say Emerson's interest in religion came from?

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

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