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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Emerson, Galileo did more with what than anyone since?
(a) A map of the stars.
(b) An opera-glass.
(c) A thermometer.
(d) A telescope.

3. What does Emerson call "primary wisdom"?
(a) A sense of being.
(b) The fundamental essence of one's own character.
(c) Spontaneity.
(d) Intuition.

4. Which faith does Emerson NOT mention as an example of "creeds and churches"?
(a) Quakerism.
(b) Lutheranism.
(c) Swedenborgism.
(d) Calvinism.

5. Emerson explains what underlies the present and life and death. What is it?
(a) That which I think and feel.
(b) The pure love of God.
(c) Vision and understanding.
(d) Nature in all its glory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emerson say one should ask the "invaders" to do since "God is here within"?

2. Emerson announces "The delegation from Essex! The Democrats from New Hampshire!" in an attempt to show that men feel strong under which circumstances?

3. Which virtue is paid to kings, nobles and great proprietors?

4. What does Emerson mean in saying that there "will be power not confident but agent" when the soul is present?

5. What does Emerson claim must we do in order to see truly?

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