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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Society and Solitude.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What example does Emerson use in "Spiritual Laws" to demonstrate the effects of force-feeding children questions and answers of little interest?
(a) Public school.
(b) Sunday school.
(c) Patriotism.
(d) Discipline at home.

2. What word or phrase means a belief that God's grace allows an individual to ignore all laws, divine and terrestrial?
(a) Divine providence.
(b) Entitlement.
(c) Faith.
(d) Antinomianism.

3. What does Emerson link with transcendentalism in "The Transcendentalist"?
(a) Native American practices.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Islam.

4. Who sees through appearances and trends to seize life and speak truth?
(a) The academic.
(b) The philosopher.
(c) The artist.
(d) The poet.

5. Which of the following is the best and most efficient type of economy for man, according to Emerson?
(a) Democratic republic.
(b) Public bureaucracy.
(c) Private enterprise.
(d) Enlightened socialism.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was "Nature" published?

2. According to Emerson, what is a faint reflection of proper manners?

3. How was "The Transcendentalist" originally delivered?

4. Why does Emerson say every man is not duplicitous for not only being partialist?

5. What, with friendship, creates a "cordial goodwill," according to "Friendship"?

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