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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Emerson claim is the only thing that is sacred?
(a) The integrity of one's own mind.
(b) The goodness of the world.
(c) Tradition.
(d) Names and customs.

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

3. Who does Emerson make an example of when talking about living according to his recommendations?
(a) Great men.
(b) Minors and invalids.
(c) True geniuses.
(d) Great artists.

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

5. What does Emerson say happens to the "voices which we hear in solitude" as we enter into the world?
(a) They are affected by others.
(b) They become louder and more powerful.
(c) They become abstract.
(d) They grow faint and inaudible.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Emerson call "...pretty oracles nature yields us..." when talking about examples of trusting oneself?

3. Why does Emerson say about children's minds?

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

5. What does Emerson suggest about philanthropy?

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