2. Which of these concerns did NOT burden Emerson in 1847?
(a) Family matters.
(b) Endless obligations.
(c) Health problems.
(d) Financial problems.

3. What was the focus of "The Dial" under Emerson's editorial leadership?
(a) Culture and philosophy.
(b) Science and history.
(c) Literature.
(d) Art.

4. What did Emerson do for Carlyle?
(a) Edit his work.
(b) Publish his work in America.
(c) Provide a subsidy.
(d) Halt a pirated copy of his work.

5. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's response to his son's death?
(a) He was assured of an afterlife.
(b) He was inspired.
(c) He was destroyed.
(d) He was devastated.

6. How was Emerson received in Europe?
(a) He was treated as a curiosity.
(b) He was hardly noticed.
(c) He was treated as a celebrity.
(d) He was criticized.

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

8. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's feelings?
(a) That he would never compensate for his losses.
(b) That he wanted more freedom than he had.
(c) That he had accomplished nothing.
(d) That he had no control over his life.

9. What idea of the author's does Richardson say Emerson followed "surprisingly far?"
(a) Disregard for individuality.
(b) Doubt about the possibility of transcendent experience.
(c) Faith in evolutionary processes.
(d) Respect for historical determinism.

10. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's feeling about the essay "The Poet?"
(a) He was afraid of the censure it would draw.
(b) He felt more uncertain of that essay than any other.
(c) He was afraid to believe in his own prophecy.
(d) He thought it was one of his best.

11. What did Emerson witness in Europe?
(a) Modern warfare.
(b) Severe economic crisis.
(c) Famine and poverty.
(d) Revolutions in England and France.

12. What does Richardson say caused Emerson to become less innocent?
(a) Ellen's death.
(b) Getting older.
(c) Waldo's death.
(d) His marriage.

13. What was Emerson's hobby?
(a) Orchard keeping.
(b) Beekeeping.
(c) Building furniture.
(d) Farming.

14. In what way did Emerson try to form a commune?
(a) He helped utopianists make their plans for communes in New York.
(b) He tried to get friends to move to his neighborhood.
(c) He tried to interest others in buying shares in land to farm communally.
(d) He moved to Brook Farm part-time.

15. What was the subject of Emerson's speech at Dartmouth?
(a) The danger of contamination by British thought.
(b) The debt Americans owed to Britain.
(c) The superiority of American literature to British poetry.
(d) The inadequacy of American creativity.