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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Emerson's first printed work?
(a) Nature.
(b) The Divinity School Address.
(c) A speech on Concord's bicentennial.
(d) Essays.

3. How did travel in Italy affect Emerson?
(a) He became suspicious of Old World philosophy.
(b) He was rejuvenated.
(c) He felt dwarfed by the history there.
(d) He was overcome with awe.

4. Who came to live with Emerson after his brother Charles died?
(a) Margaret Fuller.
(b) Ellery Channing.
(c) Elizabeth Hoar.
(d) Caroline Sturgis.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Richardson characterize the development of Emerson's writing in 1834?

2. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's second wife?

3. How did Emerson describe Ellen Tucker?

4. Where did Emerson move, in advance of writing Nature?

5. How did Emerson characterize Samuel Taylor Coleridge?

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