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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Manners | Gifts.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Public school.
(c) Sunday school.
(d) Patriotism.

2. How does the love between a man and woman usually begin?
(a) With fire and passion.
(b) Quietly, like a summer breeze.
(c) With shy flirtations.
(d) In hot-blooded youth.

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

4. What is the primary tool of the poet?
(a) Imagination.
(b) Experience.
(c) Truth.
(d) Language.

5. What are "apologies for gifts," according to Emerson?
(a) Books.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Store-bought gifts.
(d) Fancy jewelry.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are eccentricities dealt with in people who are otherwise fit to enter a mannered upper class?

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

3. What kind of friendship does Emerson prefer?

4. How should one be a man, according to "Self-Reliance"?

5. Who is the author of "Selected Writings"?

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