Emerson Biography Quiz

True or False

Emerson believed the past customs and systems of Europe should be practiced in America.

• True

• False

Emerson believed that people should gain access to higher laws and God through________________.

• Nature

• Scripture

• Education

• School

Emerson was rare because he appealed to ________________________________.

• the rich and poor

• young and old

• intellectuals and the general public

• ministers and politicians

Emerson delivered _______________ of lectures throughout the United States.

Emerson was one of the American authors credited with the ___________________ movement.

• romantic

• transcendentalist

• realist

• modern

Enerson said he was a born __________.

• novelist

• inventor

• poet

• artist

Emerson's family was cultured but _____________.

Emerson's father and 1st wife, Ellen Tucker, both died from ______________.

• polio

• tuberculosis

• typhiod fever

• malaria

Who helped raise Emerson and made sure he was a hard worker.

• his aunt

• his sister

• his grandmother

• his godmother

True or False

Emerson was expected to become a minister.

• True

• False