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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What theme does Richardson say Emerson began to write about as he turned forty?
(a) Mysticism.
(b) Political resistance.
(c) Idealism.
(d) Isolation.

2. What imagery filled Emerson's prose and poems in 1836?
(a) Forging and birth.
(b) Illness and death.
(c) Health and insanity.
(d) Travel and arrival.

3. What career paths was Emerson torn between?
(a) Preaching and law.
(b) Preaching and writing.
(c) Law and teaching.
(d) Farming and writing.

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

5. What effect did the house fire have on Emerson's emotional life?
(a) It weakened him.
(b) It crushed him.
(c) It cut him free from his ties.
(d) It reinvigorated him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Richardson characterize Emerson's perspective on approaching Europe?

2. What was it about Lincoln that surprised Emerson?

3. What did Emerson say about women's rights?

4. What is the main theme of Nature?

5. How did Emerson characterize Samuel Taylor Coleridge?

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