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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. What does Emerson say threatens culture?
(a) An excess of egotism.
(b) Censorship.
(c) Lack of education.
(d) A totalitarian government.

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

3. Whose rights did the Fugitive Slave Law protect?
(a) Slaveholders.
(b) Families of slaves.
(c) Free blacks.
(d) Slaves.

4. Which of the following is NOT a way men of genius maintain their distance from others?
(a) Fear.
(b) Solitude.
(c) An acid tongue.
(d) Courtesy.

5. What poem of Emerson's is about the woods and pond on his own property?
(a) "Self-Reliance".
(b) "Threnody".
(c) "Forerunners".
(d) "Walden".

Short Answer Questions

1. What right of individuals has never been tried as the foundation of a state?

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

3. What view does Emerson take of human love in "Love"?

4. What allows humans to survive culturally, according to Emerson?

5. According to "Compensation", which of the following is NOT one of the realms mentioned that achieves a balance between positive and negative forces?

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