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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Emerson's response to the publicity that arose from Andrews Norton's article?
(a) He stayed out of it.
(b) He answered Norton publicly.
(c) He made overtures to Norton through friends.
(d) He corresponded with Norton's superiors.

2. What does Emerson try to connect ecstasy to in his essay on ecstasy?
(a) History.
(b) Language.
(c) Nature.
(d) Sex.

3. What took Emerson to New York?
(a) Travel for pleasure.
(b) Lecturing.
(c) Utopian schemes.
(d) Publishing.

4. What did Emerson turn his house into?
(a) A hotel.
(b) A restaurant.
(c) A boardinghouse.
(d) A library.

5. 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) Respect for historical determinism.
(d) Faith in evolutionary processes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Emerson become interested in after discovering Hafiz?

2. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's feeling about the essay "The Poet?"

3. How did "The Dial" change Emerson's writing?

4. What does Richardson say was the most important thing in Emerson's life?

5. What does Richardson say Hafiz awoke in Emerson?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Hafiz and what was his influence on Emerson?

2. Describe Emerson's son's death and its effect on him.

3. Describe Emerson's lecturing career.

4. What was the significance of Emerson's first daughter's name?

5. What were Emerson's impressions of England when he traveled there in 1848?

6. Who was Jones Very?

7. What was Emerson's response to the invitation to join Brook Farm?

8. What was Emerson's relationship with "The Dial?"

9. What was Fourier's influence on Emerson's thinking?

10. Describe Emerson's relationship with Whitman.

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