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

2. What group did Emerson share "Ezra Ripley, D.D." with?
(a) A local library group.
(b) Boston College.
(c) The Social Circle of Concord.
(d) Concord's daily newspaper.

3. What denomination did Ripley come from?
(a) Anglican.
(b) Puritanism.
(c) Quaker.
(d) Catholic.

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

5. What is the only permanent thing in the universe, according to Emerson?
(a) Scientific thought.
(b) Impermanence.
(c) God.
(d) Mathematics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Plato born?

2. Whose principles, which led to a new age in quantum physics, are similar to the ideas hinted at in "Circles"?

3. What does Emerson say people hope to have happen to old patterns?

4. How does Emerson describe Ripley?

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

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