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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ezra Ripley, D.D..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the direction of nature and human consciousness?
(a) Like a labyrinth that turns in on itself.
(b) The creation of ever-widening circles.
(c) An unlighted path.
(d) Walking an endless circle.

2. How do people try to change old patterns in their lives?
(a) Rebelling against the way they were raised.
(b) Education and philosophy.
(c) Art and music.
(d) Drugs and alcohol.

3. Where did Ripley graduate college?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Princeton.
(c) New York University.
(d) Boston College.

4. What job did Ripley have before entering college?
(a) Day laborer.
(b) Farmer.
(c) Preacher.
(d) Plumber.

5. Whose principles, which led to a new age in quantum physics, are similar to the ideas hinted at in "Circles"?
(a) Leonard Hofstadter's.
(b) Albert Einstein's.
(c) Gabriele Veneziano's.
(d) Robert Oppenheimer's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word did Plato use to explain opposites joined together, according to "Plato, or the Philosopher"?

2. What denomination did Ripley come from?

3. How is truth revealed, according to "Intellect"?

4. What did Plato emphasize over the body, according to "Plato, or the Philosopher"?

5. How does Emerson describe Ripley?

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