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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 9-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Emerson claim men believe about how they communicate their character?
(a) They believe they can communicate their virtue without their vice.
(b) They believe they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions.
(c) They believe that communicating virtuous actions makes up for their vice.
(d) They believe their virtue and vice emit a breath every moment.

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

3. What does Emerson mean by the word "meanness" when he writes: "This rule ... may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness"?
(a) Spitefulness.
(b) Hatefulness.
(c) Harshness.
(d) Plainness.

4. What are boys sure of in Emerson's example of how boys speak their mind?
(a) Their dinner.
(b) Their friends.
(c) Their parents.
(d) Themselves.

5. What reason does Emerson give for good deeds?
(a) Some men do good deeds as a spectacle for others.
(b) Some men do good deeds because it is their intrinsic duty.
(c) Some men do good deeds when they are of decent character.
(d) Some men do good deeds to quiet their conscience.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Emerson say a man will find himself if he exercises his reason?

3. What does Emerson say a man speaking his opinions would do to other men?

4. What does Emerson claim is the only thing that is sacred?

5. What does Emerson insist a man must be in order to really be a man?

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