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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Emerson travel from South Carolina?
(a) Europe.
(b) New York.
(c) New England.
(d) Florida.

2. What vow does Richardson say Emerson made to himself while he was writing Nature?
(a) To stay positive.
(b) To capture the divinity in print.
(c) To make a name for himself in European literature.
(d) To stay true.

3. What was Emerson's family's economic status when Emerson was in college?
(a) Poor and unknown.
(b) Wealthy and well-recognized.
(c) Illustrious.
(d) Poor but distinguished.

4. What were Emerson's religious beliefs tending toward, at the time of his ordination?
(a) Certainty that divine grace is the only avenue to redemption.
(b) Doubts regarding divine grace.
(c) Uncertainty about the nature of the divine.
(d) Certainty that the self provides the only access to divinity.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Richardson, what religious belief did Emerson turn toward while Ellen Tucker was dying?

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

4. How does Richardson characterize Emerson as a reader?

5. What was Emerson's first printed work?

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