2. 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.

3. Who influenced Emerson during this turning point?
(a) Edward Everett.
(b) Samson Reed.
(c) Edward Channing.
(d) Mary Moody Emerson.

4. What does Richardson say his book illustrates in Emerson's life?
(a) His life as opposed to his reputation.
(b) His literary development.
(c) His emotional life.
(d) His genius and his flaws.

5. What limitation does Emerson describe in Christianity in his Divinity School Address?
(a) That the church was corrupt.
(b) That no institution can interpose between man and God.
(c) That priests were frequently hypocritical.
(d) That historical Christianity is founded on the Bible, not human nature.

6. What vow does Richardson say Emerson made to himself while he was writing Nature?
(a) To stay positive.
(b) To stay true.
(c) To capture the divinity in print.
(d) To make a name for himself in European literature.

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

8. What is the main theme of Nature?
(a) The transcendent nature of God.
(b) The evolution of conscience.
(c) The relation between human beings and nature.
(d) The divinity of human intuition.

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

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

11. What does Emerson say reality is masked by?
(a) Culture.
(b) Daily routines.
(c) Imagination.
(d) Human sinfulness.

12. What topic did Emerson lecture on after returning home from Europe?
(a) Science.
(b) Religion.
(c) Biography.
(d) Literature.

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

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

15. How was Emerson's 1837 speech at Harvard on the American Scholar received?
(a) With gifts.
(b) With hostility.
(c) With celebration.
(d) With relief.