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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. Where does Richardson say Emerson and his brothers got their most profound education?
(a) Ruth Haskins.
(b) Their father.
(c) Mary Moody Emerson.
(d) Harvard.

5. How are we introduced to Emerson in the Prologue?
(a) He is opening his dead wife's casket.
(b) He is being celebrated as the poet of the people.
(c) He is writing his first major work.
(d) He is traveling South to recover his health.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Richardson characterize the beginning of Emerson's relation with Margaret Fuller?

2. Who came to live with Emerson after his brother Charles died?

3. What was Emerson lecturing on while he was courting Lidian?

4. In what movement does Richardson say was Lidian ahead of Emerson?

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

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