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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which words does Emerson want to have "gazetted and ridiculous henceforward"?
(a) Conformity and consistency.
(b) Memory and reality.
(c) Society and philanthropy.
(d) Mediocrity and contentment.

2. Which story does Emerson tell to get his point across about self-perception?
(a) That of a duke who leaves his riches behind to become a poor man.
(b) That of a poor man taken to a duke's house and told he is the duke.
(c) That of a poor man who trusts himself enough to become a duke.
(d) That of a duke taken to a poor man's house and told he is a poor man.

3. What is an institution the lengthened shadow of?
(a) All great men.
(b) One man.
(c) A great character.
(d) A series of geniuses.

4. 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 well-known painter.
(d) An unknown painter.

5. At which point is a person willing to "let the words go"?
(a) When he or she understands them.
(b) When he or she realizes that they are useless.
(c) When he or she no longer needs them.
(d) When he or she becomes self-reliant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emerson suggest one should accept in regards to divine providence?

2. What is it that man no longer dares to say, according to Emerson?

3. Emerson mentions something personal to him that makes "no reference" to the past and simply exists with God today. What is it?

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

5. What does conformity explain?

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