Self-Reliance Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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Self-Reliance Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraph 28-End of Essay.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Emerson say the muscles are moved by in his discussion of company?
(a) Our own will alone.
(b) The will of others.
(c) A most disagreeable sensation.
(d) A low usurping willfulness.

2. What kind of expression does Emerson say that we begin to acquire with conformity?
(a) The gentlest perceptive expression.
(b) The gentlest rational expression.
(c) The gentlest asinine expression.
(d) The gentlest weak-minded expression.

3. What does Emerson say no man can violate?
(a) His nature.
(b) The laws of nature.
(c) The laws of God.
(d) The laws of society.

4. What does Emerson say you can "present every moment"?
(a) Yourself.
(b) Your own gift.
(c) Your will.
(d) Your art.

5. Emerson claims that a man or company of men can overpower "all cities, nations, kings, rich men, poets" when he or they posses which characteristic?
(a) Being of great virtue.
(b) Being fully honest.
(c) Being open to principles.
(d) Being entirely self-reliant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emerson insist a man must be in order to really be a man?

2. Emerson explains in his essay exactly what it is that "scares us from self-trust." What is it?

3. Whom does Emerson say we should awaken when entering "into the state of war"?

4. What is a man worth that "tries all the professions"?

5. What is antinomianism ("The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is ... mere antinomianism")?

(see the answer key)

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