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

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

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

4. How is truth revealed, according to "Intellect"?
(a) As a bolt of lightning.
(b) As a wave in the ocean.
(c) As a wandering light.
(d) As a butterfly from a caterpillar.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What denomination did Ripley come from?

3. To whom is "Ezra Ripley, D.D." a tribute?

4. What does Plato's concept of the dichotomy of the body and soul provide the foundation for, according to Emerson?

5. In what year was Plato born?

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