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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 are "sallies" of will?
(a) Motivating factors.
(b) Role models.
(c) Ventures outside of the norm.
(d) Demonstrations.

2. What does Emerson not recommend dragging about in his discussion of past acts?
(a) The carcass of your consistency.
(b) The burden of the public.
(c) The deadweight of contradiction.
(d) The corpse of your memory.

3. What does Emerson say "...is all that concerns..." him?
(a) What I believe.
(b) My own charities.
(c) What I must do.
(d) My own thought.

4. What is Emerson describing when he states: "In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity: yet when the devout motions of the soul come ... they should clothe God with shape and color"?
(a) You must be wary of religious emotion.
(b) We can never truly know what God is like.
(c) Your own ideas of God are unimportant.
(d) It is acceptable to change one's mind.

5. On what does Emerson say we will be advancing if we live as "guides, redeemers and benefactors"?
(a) Evil and the Dark.
(b) Evil and Chaos.
(c) Chaos and the Dark.
(d) Chaos and the Devil.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emerson mean by the word "meanness" when he writes: "This rule ... may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness"?

2. How does Emerson say a man feels when he has said or done something not according to his own will?

3. What are boys sure of in Emerson's example of how boys speak their mind?

4. To which "iron string" does Emerson say every heart vibrates?

5. Who does Emerson say babies conform to?

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