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