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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Nominalist and Realist.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Emerson say people hope to have happen to old patterns?
(a) To forget them.
(b) To learn from them.
(c) To find others who share them.
(d) To be shocked out of them.

2. What happens when you greatly admire or revere someone?
(a) You emulate them.
(b) You raise them to perfection in your mind.
(c) You resent them.
(d) You become jealous of them.

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

4. How is a new experience of reality evidenced, according to "Art"?
(a) The artist's childhood experiences.
(b) The artist's intellect.
(c) The artist's work.
(d) The artist's personality.

5. What kind of friendship does Emerson prefer?
(a) A friendship that is "evenly matched."
(b) A long-distance friendship.
(c) An intellectual friendship.
(d) A rough kind of friendship.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the soul different from the physical body, according to Emerson?

2. What is the primary tool of the poet?

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

4. What does Emerson call prudence, according to "Prudence"?

5. True prudence does not question ______ laws.

(see the answer key)

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