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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What did Emerson praise in the essay based on Alec Therien?
(a) The representative man.
(b) The different types of men.
(c) The common man.
(d) The exceptional man.

3. Why did Emerson take over editorship of "The Dial?"
(a) Margaret Fuller resigned.
(b) The other editors asked Emerson to take over.
(c) It was Emerson's turn.
(d) The other editors asked Margaret Fuller to step down.

4. Why did Emerson go to California?
(a) To get out of Concord for a little while.
(b) To meet John Muir.
(c) To recuperate.
(d) To sightsee.

5. With what point of Goethe's did Emerson conclude his lectures on great men?
(a) That the times had changed, and human life would be something new from this point.
(b) That we have to honor tradition even as we innovate.
(c) That we must find the middle path between action and meditation.
(d) That we must put what we know into practice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What troubled Emerson during his travels to the South?

2. On whom did Emerson's reading focus after he graduated from Harvard?

3. What practice did Emerson begin in college?

4. How was Emerson's 1837 speech at Harvard on the American Scholar received?

5. How does Emerson describe war in "The Peace Principle?"

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