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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Richardson say was revealed by the publication of Nature?
(a) That modern culture was confirming ancient religious knowledge.
(b) That American religion was essentially capitalistic.
(c) That new ideas of religion were coming from modern culture.
(d) That American religion was pantheistic.

3. How did Emerson describe Ellen Tucker?
(a) Sensitive and religious.
(b) Beautiful, with a vibrant spirit.
(c) Strong-willed and supportive.
(d) Rhapsodic and angelic.

4. In what movement does Richardson say was Lidian ahead of Emerson?
(a) Abolition.
(b) Opposition to the Indian Removal.
(c) Women's suffrage.
(d) Advocating the independence of American thought.

5. What idea of Emerson's influenced Richardson's biography?
(a) That men are best described by the women in their lives.
(b) That the lives of great mean can tell us about all men.
(c) That some men's lives define the extremes of human experience.
(d) That men can only be known through their historical context.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Emerson reading at the time he fell in love with Lydia Jackson?

2. What was Emerson reading of Bronson Alcott's, after settling down with Lidian?

3. How does Richardson characterize Emerson as a reader?

4. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's perspective on approaching Europe?

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

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