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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Richardson say Emerson and his brothers got their most profound education?
(a) Mary Moody Emerson.
(b) Ruth Haskins.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Their father.

2. What does Richardson say was the turning point in Emerson's life?
(a) His junior year in college.
(b) His trip to Europe.
(c) His trip to South Carolina.
(d) His wife's death.

3. What was the title of Emerson's first sermon?
(a) "Self-Reliance."
(b) "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
(c) "The Wreck of All Earthly Good."
(d) "Pray without Ceasing."

4. How did Emerson change after opening Ellen's casket?
(a) He decided to focus on the living.
(b) He began to believe in the life of the spirit.
(c) He became morbid in his writing.
(d) He began to see the importance of scientific study.

5. What were Emerson's religious beliefs tending toward, at the time of his ordination?
(a) Certainty that the self provides the only access to divinity.
(b) Certainty that divine grace is the only avenue to redemption.
(c) Uncertainty about the nature of the divine.
(d) Doubts regarding divine grace.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where in his career was Emerson, in the scene Richardson describes in the Prologue?

2. What trouble did the Emerson family encounter around the time of Emerson's engagement?

3. What troubled Emerson during his travels to the South?

4. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's reaction to Ellen's death?

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

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