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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 history favor in regard to the issue of slavery?
(a) Political discourse.
(b) The wealthy.
(c) Popular practice.
(d) Human rights and abolition.

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

3. According to "An Address", what subverts the truly moral character of man?
(a) American politics.
(b) European academia.
(c) Industry.
(d) Christianity.

4. What contemporary of Emerson's can be seen in his poem "Uriel"?
(a) William Wordsworth.
(b) T. S. Eliot.
(c) Edgar Allan Poe.
(d) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

5. What form does "Emancipation in the British West Indies" take?
(a) A tract.
(b) A poem.
(c) A brochure.
(d) A letter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What state does Emerson challenge in "Emancipation in the British West Indies"?

2. According to "Society and Solitude", what is necessary for men to formulate thoughts?

3. Whose rights did the Fugitive Slave Law protect?

4. Who was Plato's teacher?

5. According to Emerson, what is one negative effect of men isolating themselves?

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