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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 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.

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

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

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

5. To whom is "Ezra Ripley, D.D." a tribute?
(a) Emerson's stepfather.
(b) Emerson's uncle.
(c) Emerson's childhood best friend.
(d) Emerson's academic advisor.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What job did Ripley have before entering college?

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

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

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

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