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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 1-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Emerson say adults feel in looking into the faces of children?
(a) Powerful.
(b) Conquered.
(c) Hopeful.
(d) Disconcerted.

2. Which of the following figures does Emerson not mention as being an example of speaking one's mind?
(a) Plato.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Moses.
(d) Milton.

3. What does Emerson say members are required to surrender in his comparison to joint-stock companies?
(a) Liberty and freedom.
(b) Culture and education.
(c) Liberty and culture.
(d) Nature and freedom.

4. What does Emerson wish adults could return to?
(a) Their youth.
(b) Their carelessness.
(c) Their true state.
(d) Their neutrality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emerson give as his reason for insisting that we "...must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny..."?

2. What does Emerson say happens to the "voices which we hear in solitude" as we enter into the world?

3. What does "Ne te quaesiveris extra" mean?

4. Emerson says boys try and sentence people and facts based on what?

5. What is Emerson referring to when he writes: "...seated at their heart, working through their hands..." in his description of those living according to his recommendations?

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