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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Fugitive Slave Law.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Emerson suggest his readers should acquire art?
(a) By listening to art dealers.
(b) By following their hearts.
(c) By creating it themselves.
(d) By reading about what's popular at the time.

2. What allows humans to survive culturally, according to Emerson?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Faith.
(c) Adaptability.
(d) Education.

3. What is bereft of models of heroism, according to Emerson's "Heroism"?
(a) Public education.
(b) Contemporary literature.
(c) Historical folklore.
(d) Secular society.

4. What does Emerson believe about nature?
(a) It can be used as an analogy for all aspects of life.
(b) It is unchanging.
(c) It is bipolar.
(d) It will be the only thing that lasts.

5. According to "An Address", what subverts the truly moral character of man?
(a) Industry.
(b) American politics.
(c) Christianity.
(d) European academia.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do we pass through life, according to "Experience"?

2. How is a new experience of reality evidenced, according to "Art"?

3. What do the Magna Carta, American Revolution, and habeas corpus reveal about the English?

4. What contemporary of Emerson's is suggested in his poem "Forerunners"?

5. How was Emerson received on his last trip to England?

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