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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Inner Light.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Emerson's relationship with his reading?
(a) He tried to remain independent of what he read.
(b) He tried to lose himself in his reading.
(c) He tried to inhabit each author's mind.
(d) He tried to claim the experiences contained in each book.

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

3. The Mind on Fire is the story of what?
(a) Emerson's marriage.
(b) Emerson's intellectual career.
(c) Emerson's family.
(d) Emerson's literary development.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Richardson characterize the development of Emerson's writing in 1834?

2. Where in his career was Emerson, in the scene Richardson describes in the Prologue?

3. What career paths was Emerson torn between?

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

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

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