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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Inner Light.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What trouble did the Emerson family encounter around the time of Emerson's engagement?
(a) His brother had a mental breakdown.
(b) His brother died of tuberculosis.
(c) His father died.
(d) His mother fell ill.

2. What was Emerson's relationship with his reading?
(a) He tried to remain independent of what he read.
(b) He tried to lose himself in his reading.
(c) He tried to inhabit each author's mind.
(d) He tried to claim the experiences contained in each book.

3. How does Richardson describe Emerson as a young boy?
(a) Talented and ambitious.
(b) Full of doubts.
(c) Silly and unpromising.
(d) Self-critical and motivated.

4. When did Emerson meet Lydia Jackson?
(a) 1829.
(b) 1832.
(c) 1836.
(d) 1834.

5. On whom did Emerson's reading focus after he graduated from Harvard?
(a) German Transcendentalists.
(b) Romantic poets.
(c) Platonic philosophers.
(d) Scottish Common Sense philosophers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did travel in Italy affect Emerson?

2. The Mind on Fire is the story of what?

3. Where was Emerson going on Christmas Day, 1832?

4. What were Emerson's religious beliefs tending toward, at the time of his ordination?

5. What publication did Emerson call a "living leaping Logos"?

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