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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Fugitive Slave Law.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who or what is a part of nature, according to "Nature"?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Architecture.
(c) Man.
(d) Progress.

2. How does Emerson say we become aware of the changes in our lives brought on by experience?
(a) Through prayer.
(b) By observing those same changes in other people's lives.
(c) By living our lives.
(d) In retrospect.

3. Whom does Emerson attack in "The Fugitive Slave Law"?
(a) All free white men.
(b) Harriet Tubman.
(c) President Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Daniel Webster.

4. What does Emerson link with transcendentalism in "The Transcendentalist"?
(a) Islam.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Native American practices.
(d) Christianity.

5. What is one aspect of the English Emerson admires?
(a) Their military.
(b) Their spirituality.
(c) Their slow-to-anger steadiness.
(d) Their government rituals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does culture allow humans to do, according to "Culture"?

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

3. Whose rights did the Fugitive Slave Law protect?

4. If the people within a commune did not work equally, what does Emerson say the harder-working individuals would do?

5. What state's citizens did Daniel Webster betray?

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