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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Emerson characterize Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
(a) As a citizen of the universe.
(b) As a man of the hour.
(c) As a voice of the people.
(d) As a living instance of the world-spirit.

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

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

5. What imagery filled Emerson's prose and poems in 1836?
(a) Illness and death.
(b) Forging and birth.
(c) Travel and arrival.
(d) Health and insanity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What career paths was Emerson torn between?

2. What topic did Emerson lecture on after returning home from Europe?

3. What did Emerson suffer in 1837?

4. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's relationship with his brothers?

5. What 1837 event related to slavery does Richardson say affected Emerson's emotional state?

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