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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Spiritual Laws | Love.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was "Nature" published?
(a) 1837.
(b) 1835.
(c) 1834.
(d) 1836.

2. What example does Emerson use in "Spiritual Laws" to demonstrate the effects of force-feeding children questions and answers of little interest?
(a) Discipline at home.
(b) Patriotism.
(c) Sunday school.
(d) Public school.

3. According to "Compensation", by what is mankind defined?
(a) Pluralism.
(b) Dualism.
(c) Singularity.
(d) Spirituality.

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

5. According to Emerson, who "should see that he can live all history in his own person"?
(a) The historian.
(b) The scholar.
(c) The philosopher.
(d) The enlightened individual.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emerson link with transcendentalism in "The Transcendentalist"?

2. Whose minds are formed in a certain direction, according to "Spiritual Laws"?

3. What credibility did Emerson have to discuss the topic of "An Address"?

4. The power of ______ lies in their ability to awaken us to the universal and timeless laws of man and nature.

5. What is the subject of "An Address"?

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