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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) Walking an endless circle.
(b) An unlighted path.
(c) The creation of ever-widening circles.
(d) Like a labyrinth that turns in on itself.

2. Who was Plato's teacher?
(a) Confucius.
(b) He was self-taught.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Immanuel Kant.

3. What philosopher did Emerson say was the beginning and end of all philosophy?
(a) Confucius.
(b) Plato.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Immanuel Kant.

4. What does Emerson say people hope to have happen to old patterns?
(a) To forget them.
(b) To be shocked out of them.
(c) To find others who share them.
(d) To learn from them.

5. What does Plato's concept of the dichotomy of the body and soul provide the foundation for, according to Emerson?
(a) Christianity's monotheism.
(b) The afterlife.
(c) Paganism's polytheism.
(d) America's bipartisanism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Emerson describe Ripley?

2. How do people try to change old patterns in their lives?

3. What is the only permanent thing in the universe, according to Emerson?

4. Where did Ripley graduate college?

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

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