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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Emerson describe his experience of Ellen's death?
(a) It was a death for him as well.
(b) It was a second birth.
(c) It was a turning point.
(d) It forced him to question his beliefs.

2. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's relationship with his brothers?
(a) Distant.
(b) Contentious.
(c) Competitive.
(d) Intimate.

3. What does Richardson say likely caused Emerson's eye problems?
(a) Overwork.
(b) Migraines.
(c) Stress.
(d) Tuberculosis.

4. On whom did Emerson's reading focus after he graduated from Harvard?
(a) Scottish Common Sense philosophers.
(b) Romantic poets.
(c) German Transcendentalists.
(d) Platonic philosophers.

5. How are we introduced to Emerson in the Prologue?
(a) He is traveling South to recover his health.
(b) He is opening his dead wife's casket.
(c) He is being celebrated as the poet of the people.
(d) He is writing his first major work.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was the title of Emerson's first sermon?

4. What practice did Emerson begin in college?

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

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