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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What world literature did Emerson include in "The Dial?"
(a) Histories.
(b) Accounts of ecstatic religious experiences.
(c) Scriptures.
(d) Poems.

2. What began to appear in America as a result of Charles Fourier's work?
(a) Organized unions.
(b) Poetry magazines.
(c) New style hats.
(d) Communes.

3. What does Richardson say were Emerson's feelings about marriage?
(a) He thought it was a form of imprisonment.
(b) He thought it was the bedrock of civilization.
(c) He criticized the institution.
(d) He thought marriages should allow partners their sexual freedom.

4. Who does Emerson say he had always considered his best friend?
(a) Lidian.
(b) Fuller.
(c) Ellen.
(d) Thoreau.

5. What did Margaret Fuller ask Emerson for in 1840?
(a) Money.
(b) A recommendation.
(c) A closer relationship.
(d) Advice for her writing.

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

7. What does Richardson say crowds expected from Emerson?
(a) Inspiration.
(b) Encouragement.
(c) Beautiful speeches.
(d) Just to see him was enough.

8. What did Emerson become interested in after discovering Hafiz?
(a) Science.
(b) Asian history.
(c) Prints and music.
(d) The progress of history.

9. How did Margaret Fuller Ossoli die?
(a) Illness.
(b) Childbirth.
(c) Shipwreck.
(d) Murder.

10. According to Richardson, what feeling would stay with Emerson for the rest of his life, after the Norton affair?
(a) The taste of public censure.
(b) The flush of success.
(c) The pride of accomplishment.
(d) Doubt about his talents.

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

12. What idea of Hegel's did Emerson discover on returning from Europe?
(a) The importance of the heroic individual.
(b) The importance of history.
(c) The importance of marriage.
(d) The importance of community.

13. How does Richardson say Emerson felt in response to the work he did for Carlyle?
(a) Motivated to write his own essays.
(b) Inspired to write poetry.
(c) Afraid of failure and competition.
(d) Humbled so that he could not write.

14. What did Emerson say about women's rights?
(a) That women had already proved themselves more than capable of equality with men.
(b) That advocacy was the only obstacle to full recognition; but that advocacy sapped every cause.
(c) That they should have them, but that they did not want them.
(d) That they should acquire them slowly and patiently.

15. With what view of Emerson's did his friends disagree, according to Richardson?
(a) His positive view of business.
(b) His isolationism.
(c) His positive view of Indian removal.
(d) His focus on writing above all else.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event threw Emerson into despair in 1840?

2. What does Richardson say Hafiz awoke in Emerson?

3. In what realization of Pythagoras' was Emerson interested?

4. What was Emerson's hobby?

5. With whom did Emerson take walks after returning from Europe?

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