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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Science of Liberty.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Richardson characterize "The Dial?"
(a) As mostly comprised of Emerson's work.
(b) As Emerson's mouthpiece.
(c) As forward looking but also memorializing the dead.
(d) As the work that inspired Emerson.

2. How does Richardson characterize the development of Emerson's writing in 1834?
(a) He was finding his voice.
(b) He was escaping from the voices to which he had always listened.
(c) His lectures were discovering new territory.
(d) His poetry was developing.

3. What publication did Emerson call a "living leaping Logos"?
(a) Hedge's manifesto.
(b) Fuller's translation of Eckermann's "Conversations with Goethe."
(c) Alcott's "Conversations with Children about the Gospels."
(d) Nature.

4. Where did Emerson travel after returning from Europe?
(a) The American West.
(b) Canada.
(c) Mexico.
(d) The American South.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Margaret Fuller Ossoli die?

2. What was Emerson's response to the publicity that arose from Andrews Norton's article?

3. What does Richardson say were Emerson's feelings about marriage?

4. What did Margaret Fuller ask Emerson for in 1840?

5. Who was Emerson reading at the time he fell in love with Lydia Jackson?

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