2. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's internal state in 1837?
(a) Tumultuous.
(b) Self-critical.
(c) Placid.
(d) Self-assured.

3. What does Richardson say is the immovable anchor in Emerson's thought?
(a) That man can know God's mind.
(b) That the mind is connected to everything.
(c) That the mind is unique in history.
(d) That individuality is divinity.

4. How does Richardson characterize the year 1834 in Emerson's life?
(a) The year of transition.
(b) The year of trials.
(c) The year of wonders.
(d) The turning point.

5. Where did Emerson move, in advance of writing Nature?
(a) His mother's house.
(b) His brother's house.
(c) Mary Moody Emerson's house.
(d) His step-grandfather Ezra Ripley's house.

6. 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.

7. Who does Richardson credit with the birth of American Transcendentalism?
(a) Jones Very.
(b) Emerson.
(c) Bronson Alcott.
(d) Frederic Hedge.

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

9. What was Emerson's family's economic status when Emerson was in college?
(a) Poor and unknown.
(b) Wealthy and well-recognized.
(c) Illustrious.
(d) Poor but distinguished.

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

11. What was Emerson lecturing on while he was courting Lidian?
(a) Science.
(b) Biography.
(c) History.
(d) Literature.

12. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's perspective on approaching Europe?
(a) He abandoned his identity.
(b) He became a free-floating individual without a country.
(c) He became a 'defensive American.'
(d) He became a citizen of the world.

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

14. 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 said that it needed to learn its history from British literature.
(d) He celebrated it.

15. How did travel in Italy affect Emerson?
(a) He felt dwarfed by the history there.
(b) He was overcome with awe.
(c) He was rejuvenated.
(d) He became suspicious of Old World philosophy.