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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event threw Emerson into despair in 1840?
(a) Lidian's illness.
(b) The death of his son Waldo.
(c) The death of Mary Moody Emerson.
(d) The death of his brother Charles.

2. What 1837 event related to slavery does Richardson say affected Emerson's emotional state?
(a) The passage of the Fugitive Slave Law.
(b) The Missouri compromise.
(c) The removal of the Cherokee.
(d) The murder of an abolitionist.

3. What vision did Emerson have in the Jardin de Plantes in Paris?
(a) He saw the cruelty of evolution.
(b) He saw the future of science.
(c) He saw the unity of all life.
(d) He saw the life of culture.

4. What was Emerson reading of Bronson Alcott's, after settling down with Lidian?
(a) Views of childhood.
(b) Theories of education.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Philosophy.

5. What publication did Emerson call a "living leaping Logos"?
(a) Fuller's translation of Eckermann's "Conversations with Goethe."
(b) Nature.
(c) Alcott's "Conversations with Children about the Gospels."
(d) Hedge's manifesto.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Richardson characterize the development of Emerson's writing in 1834?

2. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's career as a lecturer?

3. Where does Richardson say Emerson's interest in religion came from?

4. What does Richardson say were Emerson's feelings about the Civil War?

5. How does Richardson characterize Sufism?

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