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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 19-27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Emerson says boys try and sentence people and facts based on what?
(a) Their intuition.
(b) Their merits.
(c) Their characters.
(d) Their own mind.

2. Who or what does Emerson say he is living his life for?
(a) The higher good of society.
(b) God.
(c) Itself.
(d) Himself.

3. What does God communicate when he speaks, according to Emerson?
(a) The truth.
(b) His will.
(c) All things.
(d) Pure light.

4. What does Emerson say members are trying to secure in his comparison to joint-stock companies?
(a) Their profits.
(b) Their reputations.
(c) Their jobs.
(d) Their bread.

5. Which virtue is paid to kings, nobles and great proprietors?
(a) Loyalty.
(b) Homage.
(c) Servitude.
(d) Gratitude.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which words does Emerson want to have "gazetted and ridiculous henceforward"?

2. What does Emerson say tendency does to variety of actions?

3. On what does Emerson say we will be advancing if we live as "guides, redeemers and benefactors"?

4. Which of the following examples does Emerson NOT name in conjunction with the attribute of the Supreme Cause?

5. Emerson claims that man "stands on tiptoe" to see what?

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