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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Richardson characterize Margaret Fuller's tone toward Emerson?
(a) Persistent.
(b) Unctuous.
(c) Submissive.
(d) Self-aggrandizing.

2. What practice did Emerson begin in college?
(a) Keeping a journal.
(b) Holding dinner parties for intellectuals.
(c) Writing poetry.
(d) Sending money to his mother.

3. How does Richardson describe Emerson as a young boy?
(a) Talented and ambitious.
(b) Self-critical and motivated.
(c) Silly and unpromising.
(d) Full of doubts.

4. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's relation to other writers?
(a) He assimilates the best part of each work, and discards the rest.
(b) He is greater than them, and finds himself in each of them.
(c) He is afraid of his own attraction to others' ideas, and learns to protect against his identification with others.
(d) He is terrified before each of them, and has to figure out how to defend himself against their work.

5. Who influenced Emerson during this turning point?
(a) Samson Reed.
(b) Mary Moody Emerson.
(c) Edward Everett.
(d) Edward Channing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What publication did Emerson call a "living leaping Logos"?

2. What was Emerson's first printed work?

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

4. How are we introduced to Emerson in the Prologue?

5. What does Richardson say was revealed by the publication of Nature?

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