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

2. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's fame?
(a) Almost dangerous.
(b) Semi-divine.
(c) Moderate.
(d) Momentary.

3. What did Emerson begin to write about after returning to America?
(a) His trip to England.
(b) Getting older and facing death.
(c) The political events he witnessed.
(d) The realizations he had in the Paris Jardin des Plantes.

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

5. What does Richardson say is Emerson's last characteristic book?
(a) The 1844 Essays.
(b) Essays 1844.
(c) Representative Men.
(d) His book on England.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Emerson take over editorship of "The Dial?"

2. With what view of Emerson's did his friends disagree, according to Richardson?

3. To what moral did Emerson point in his use of great men?

4. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's feelings?

5. What does Emerson try to connect ecstasy to in his essay on ecstasy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Richardson say was Emerson's last characteristic book?

2. How did Emerson balance writing and editing?

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

4. What was Emerson's talk in Dartmouth like?

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

6. In what ways did Emerson differ from his friends' opinions?

7. How does Richardson describe Emerson's friendship with Thoreau after returning from England?

8. To what use does Emerson put great men in Representative Men?

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

10. What was Hegel's importance to Emerson's thinking?

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