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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) Society and philanthropy.
(b) Memory and reality.
(c) Conformity and consistency.
(d) Mediocrity and contentment.

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

3. What does Emerson say a man speaking his opinions would do to other men?
(a) Force them to listen.
(b) Force them to tell the truth.
(c) Put them in fear.
(d) Force them to see the truth.

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

5. What is it that man no longer dares to say, according to Emerson?
(a) "I can" and "I believe."
(b) "I think" and "I am."
(c) "I want" and "I will."
(d) "I won't" and "I disagree."

Short Answer Questions

1. Emerson states, "The way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new." What does he mean?

2. What "plays us false" in history?

3. What is Emerson referring to when he states: "It will be found symmetrical" in talking about consistency vs. contradiction?

4. Emerson laments that strong intellects "dare not yet hear God himself, unless he speak the phraseology of..." whom?

5. What does Emerson say conformity does in his objection to it?

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