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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through English Traits.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do we pass through life, according to "Experience"?
(a) Unaware that it is miraculous.
(b) Pausing to learn from experience.
(c) Vain to think we make a difference in any life except our own.
(d) As children in a maze.

2. How many trips did Emerson make to England that led to the writing of "English Traits"?
(a) Four.
(b) Seven.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

3. What seldom-acknowledged factor in coloring people's experience is a large part of everyone's life?
(a) Temperaments.
(b) Career.
(c) Faith.
(d) Upbringing.

4. When was Emerson's last trip to England?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1827.
(c) 1847.
(d) 1852.

5. What direction is character aligned with, according to Emerson?
(a) East.
(b) North.
(c) South.
(d) West.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another phrase for the over-soul, according to Emerson?

2. Which of the following is the best and most efficient type of economy for man, according to Emerson?

3. What word or phrase means a belief that God's grace allows an individual to ignore all laws, divine and terrestrial?

4. What year is the focus of "New England Reformers"?

5. What is the flower of the English aristocracy, according to Emerson?

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