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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 Emerson's feelings on returning to America?
(a) Despairing about finding a career.
(b) Depressed about coming home.
(c) Impatient to begin new work.
(d) Anxious about finding his family well.

2. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's perspective on approaching Europe?
(a) He became a citizen of the world.
(b) He became a free-floating individual without a country.
(c) He became a 'defensive American.'
(d) He abandoned his identity.

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

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

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 writing his first major work.
(d) He is being celebrated as the poet of the people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Emerson travel from South Carolina?

2. Who came to live with Emerson after his brother Charles died?

3. On whom did Emerson's reading focus after he graduated from Harvard?

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

5. What career paths was Emerson torn between?

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