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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What idea did Emerson return to many times after giving his speech on American Scholar?
(a) The unity of things.
(b) The importance of marriage.
(c) The omnipotence of God.
(d) The uniqueness of America.

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

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

4. What stance did Emerson take on American literature?
(a) He treated it as a narrow branch of British literature.
(b) He said that it needed to learn its history from British literature.
(c) He said that it began with him.
(d) He celebrated it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's exterior personality?

2. What was the Transcendental Club?

3. How did Emerson describe Ellen Tucker?

4. What career paths was Emerson torn between?

5. How does Richardson characterize Margaret Fuller's tone toward Emerson?

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