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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Fame.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main theme of Nature?
(a) The relation between human beings and nature.
(b) The divinity of human intuition.
(c) The evolution of conscience.
(d) The transcendent nature of God.

2. What 1837 event related to slavery does Richardson say affected Emerson's emotional state?
(a) The Missouri compromise.
(b) The murder of an abolitionist.
(c) The passage of the Fugitive Slave Law.
(d) The removal of the Cherokee.

3. What was the title of the lecture series Emerson delivered in 1837?
(a) "Self-Reliance".
(b) "Human Culture".
(c) "Refuse Great Models".
(d) "The Uses of Great Men".

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Margaret Fuller Ossoli die?

2. What does Richardson say caused Emerson to become less innocent?

3. On whom did Emerson's reading focus after he graduated from Harvard?

4. What does Richardson say is the immovable anchor in Emerson's thought?

5. How did Emerson describe his experience of Ellen's death?

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