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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Richardson characterize Emerson as a reader?
(a) Impatient.
(b) Temperamental.
(c) Narrow.
(d) Voracious.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Emerson's meeting with Carlyle a "white day in his years"?

2. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's reaction to Ellen's death?

3. Where did Emerson travel from South Carolina?

4. How did Emerson characterize Samuel Taylor Coleridge?

5. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's feelings about the changes he made after Ellen's death?

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