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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the verses that Emerson mentions at the beginning of the first paragraph?
(a) An unknown sculptor.
(b) A well-known author.
(c) An unknown painter.
(d) An well-known painter.

2. What does conformity explain?
(a) Everything.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Itself.
(d) One's fear.

3. What does Emerson say will happen if one does not put his heart into his work?
(a) His friends will desert him.
(b) His family will desert him.
(c) God will desert him.
(d) His genius will desert him.

4. How does Emerson say he knows it makes no difference whether he does or forbears "...those actions which are reckoned excellent"?
(a) He knows for himself.
(b) Society at large gave him the answer.
(c) God told him.
(d) His experience told him.

5. What does Emerson suggest is required to withstand the "rage of the cultivated classes" and the "indignation of the people"?
(a) A sad countenance.
(b) The habit of magnanimity.
(c) Decorous and prudent rage.
(d) An unintelligent brute.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who instructed the world, according to Emerson?

2. What does Emerson say a man should learn to detect and watch?

3. How does Emerson measure the degree to which a thing is real?

4. Emerson says that another person of greater obedience can master him, although he does not do what?

5. How does Emerson say he wants his life to be?

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