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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who signed the Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) The Senate.
(b) Daniel Webster.
(c) President Abraham Lincoln.
(d) The House of Representatives.

2. Where was Carlyle from?
(a) England.
(b) Wales.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Scotland.

3. Who were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) Blacks.
(b) Whites and blacks.
(c) European immigrants.
(d) Whites.

4. Where was Thoreau happiest, according to Emerson?
(a) In the city.
(b) On the ocean.
(c) Among people.
(d) In nature.

5. What is the "ill-fated, much-injured race," according to "The Emancipation Proclamation"?
(a) Jews.
(b) Whites.
(c) Romans.
(d) African-Americans.

6. Whom does Emerson compare Lincoln to in "Abraham Lincoln"?
(a) Benjamin Franklin.
(b) Jesus Christ.
(c) George Washington.
(d) The Buddha.

7. What is the celebration in "Lines to Ellen"?
(a) Marriage.
(b) A woman's classic beauty.
(c) Childbirth.
(d) Love.

8. To whom is "Ezra Ripley, D.D." a tribute?
(a) Emerson's uncle.
(b) Emerson's childhood best friend.
(c) Emerson's academic advisor.
(d) Emerson's stepfather.

9. What contemporary of Emerson's can be seen in his poem "Uriel"?
(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(b) T. S. Eliot.
(c) Edgar Allan Poe.
(d) William Wordsworth.

10. Whom does Emerson attack in "The Fugitive Slave Law"?
(a) All free white men.
(b) Daniel Webster.
(c) President Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Harriet Tubman.

11. Whose rights did the Fugitive Slave Law protect?
(a) Free blacks.
(b) Slaves.
(c) Families of slaves.
(d) Slaveholders.

12. What is the subject of "The Problem"?
(a) Emerson's biography.
(b) Emerson's split with the church.
(c) Emerson's desire to be a true poet.
(d) Emerson's fear of dying alone.

13. What poem of Emerson's is about the woods and pond on his own property?
(a) "Threnody".
(b) "Forerunners".
(c) "Self-Reliance".
(d) "Walden".

14. What did Lincoln understand, according to Emerson?
(a) Animals.
(b) How to persuade people with his oratory.
(c) The value of hard work.
(d) How to get what he wanted.

15. To whom or what is "Conduct of Life" a love letter?
(a) Academia.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(d) Emerson's wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Emancipation in the British West Indies" celebrate?

2. What job did Ripley have before entering college?

3. What would Carlyle do if elected to Parliament, according to Emerson?

4. What state's citizens did Daniel Webster betray?

5. What word does Emerson use to describe Napoleon's intellect?

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