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