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