A) Emerson's life and intellectual development B) Emerson's poetry exclusively C) Emerson's financial affairs D) Transcendentalist movement history
A) His intellectual independence B) His business acumen C) His social conformity D) His political ambition
A) His political aspirations B) His business ventures C) His immediate literary success D) His struggle with ministry
A) It was unsuccessful B) It was his primary goal C) He disliked it D) It was his main income source
A) As scientific only B) As central to his philosophy C) As superficial D) As contradictory
A) As immediately widespread B) As limited to America C) As consistently negative D) As growing over time
A) As his main achievement B) As separate from essays C) As technically poor D) As integral to his thought
A) As developed over time B) As inconsistent C) As sudden inspiration D) As borrowed entirely
A) 1965 B) 1850 C) 1903 D) 1949
A) Bancroft Prize B) National Book Award C) Nobel Prize D) Pulitzer Prize
A) Boston, Massachusetts B) New York City C) Concord, Massachusetts D) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A) Sophia Peabody B) Margaret Fuller C) Lydia Jackson D) Ellen Tucker
A) Professor of Philosophy B) President C) Librarian D) Overseer
A) The American Scholar B) Self-Reliance C) Nature D) Experience
A) The Atlantic Monthly B) The Dial C) The North American Review D) Harper's Magazine
A) Louisa May Alcott B) Ellen Tucker C) Elizabeth Peabody D) Lydia Jackson
A) Nathaniel Hawthorne B) Henry David Thoreau C) Herman Melville D) Walt Whitman
A) Harvard B) Princeton C) Brown D) Yale
A) Financial reasons B) Doctrinal disagreements C) Family obligations D) Poor health
A) Jean-Jacques Rousseau B) Immanuel Kant C) Friedrich Nietzsche D) John Locke
A) Nature B) The Conduct of Life C) Essays: First Series D) Representative Men
A) Merchant B) Minister C) Physician D) Lawyer
A) The American Scholar B) The Divinity School Address C) The Transcendentalist D) Self-Reliance
A) Emily Dickinson B) Edgar Allan Poe C) Robert Frost D) Walt Whitman
A) Heart failure B) Tuberculosis C) Stroke D) Pneumonia
A) Warren B) Waldo C) Whitman D) William
A) Thomas Carlyle B) Charles Dickens C) Victor Hugo D) Leo Tolstoy
A) Temperance B) Women's suffrage C) Labor unions D) Abolitionism
A) Orchard House B) The Old Manse C) Wayside D) Bush
A) Professor B) Editor C) Librarian D) Journalist
A) Realism B) Romanticism C) Transcendentalism D) Modernism
A) 1820 B) 1803 C) 1795 D) 1810
A) Representative Men B) Nature C) The Conduct of Life D) Essays: First Series
A) Smithsonian Institution B) Harvard University C) Columbia University D) Library of Congress
A) First biography published B) Extensive use of primary sources C) Personal friendship with Emerson D) Popular writing style |