Self-Reliance Test | Final Test - Easy

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Self-Reliance Test | Final Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is antinomianism ("The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is ... mere antinomianism")?
(a) Rejection of society.
(b) Nihilism.
(c) Rejection of manners.
(d) Spite.

2. Which virtue is paid to kings, nobles and great proprietors?
(a) Homage.
(b) Servitude.
(c) Loyalty.
(d) Gratitude.

3. Which is the definition of the word "valors" when Caratach is admonished to inquire the mind of the god Audate and replies: "His hidden meaning lies in our endeavours; Our valors are our best gods.")?
(a) Courage and boldness.
(b) Principles and standards.
(c) Regard and esteem.
(d) Distinguishing traits.

4. What is a man worth that "tries all the professions"?
(a) Less than a farmer.
(b) Less than a minister.
(c) A thousand college students.
(d) A hundred city dolls.

5. When does Emerson claim that the luster "will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen"?
(a) When men begin using their reason.
(b) When men begin to realize their own value.
(c) When men act with original views.
(d) When men begin to trust in themselves.

6. What does Emerson call history a parable of?
(a) Phraseology in another country.
(b) Time and space.
(c) Right and wrong.
(d) My being and becoming.

7. What does Emerson mean in saying that there "will be power not confident but agent" when the soul is present?
(a) Our power lives.
(b) We do not confide our power to others.
(c) We do not hope for power, we have power.
(d) Our power is not prideful.

8. No one but whom can teach us "that which (we) can do best"?
(a) Our Inner Voice.
(b) Our Divine Spirit.
(c) Ourselves.
(d) Our maker.

9. What does Emerson say goes with him everywhere he goes?
(a) His guilt.
(b) His trunk.
(c) His giant.
(d) His suggestions.

10. Emerson claims that man "stands on tiptoe" to see what?
(a) His blooming garden.
(b) The future.
(c) His own riches.
(d) The past.

11. How does Emerson claim we give men the power to annoy us?
(a) Through our weakness.
(b) Through our curiosity.
(c) Through our friendliness.
(d) Through our dependence.

12. In the state of having "life in yourself" that Emerson describes, what does he claim is of no account?
(a) Vast spaces of nature and long intervals of time.
(b) This world's many riches.
(c) The will and wanting of others.
(d) A man's own personal interest.

13. What does Emerson NOT say is a good reason to travel?
(a) So that man becomes domesticated.
(b) For the purpose of art.
(c) For study.
(d) To be amused.

14. In the final sentence of "Self-Reliance," Emerson writes: "Nothing can bring you peace but" what?
(a) "Your own will."
(b) "The triumph of principles."
(c) "Yourself."
(d) "The triumph of your character."

15. What is a hieroglyphic as referred to in talking about virtue paid to kings, nobles and great proprietors?
(a) A symbol.
(b) A monument.
(c) An Egyptian pictogram.
(d) A puzzle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Emerson compares society to what in saying "(it) moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not"?

2. What does Emerson say he likes "better than any preaching"?

3. In which hours does Emerson say "We feel that duty is our place"?

4. Emerson says we should do what instead of sitting down to "cry for company" with others?

5. What does Emerson say are "another sort of false prayer"?

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