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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What influence does Richardson say has helped Emerson's writing?
(a) His reading.
(b) His loss of Ellen Tucker.
(c) His travels.
(d) His public speaking.

2. What was Emerson's first printed work?
(a) A speech on Concord's bicentennial.
(b) Essays.
(c) Nature.
(d) The Divinity School Address.

3. Where did Emerson move, in advance of writing Nature?
(a) His brother's house.
(b) His step-grandfather Ezra Ripley's house.
(c) His mother's house.
(d) Mary Moody Emerson's house.

4. What did this turning point do for Emerson?
(a) It filled him with knowledge of the classics.
(b) It introduced him to people who could forward his career.
(c) It centered his attention on his own experience.
(d) It gave him the confidence to pursue his studies.

5. What does Richardson say was the turning point in Emerson's life?
(a) His junior year in college.
(b) His trip to South Carolina.
(c) His wife's death.
(d) His trip to Europe.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How did Emerson characterize Samuel Taylor Coleridge?

4. Where did Emerson travel from South Carolina?

5. What stance did Emerson take on American literature?

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