Self-Reliance | Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Paragraphs 1-8

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

2. Who wrote the verses that Emerson mentions at the beginning of the first paragraph?

3. What does Emerson say is most important about verses like the ones he mentions at the beginning of the first paragraph?

4. Which of the following figures does Emerson not mention as being an example of speaking one's mind?

5. What does Emerson say a man should learn to detect and watch?

6. What does Emerson say is the lesson great works of art teach us?

7. What does Emerson say causes a man to come to the conviction that "...envy is ignorance"?

8. How does Emerson say a man can recognize what he is...
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