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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Emerson suggest his readers should acquire art?
(a) By following their hearts.
(b) By listening to art dealers.
(c) By creating it themselves.
(d) By reading about what's popular at the time.

2. How do people try to change old patterns in their lives?
(a) Drugs and alcohol.
(b) Education and philosophy.
(c) Rebelling against the way they were raised.
(d) Art and music.

3. How should one be a man, according to "Self-Reliance"?
(a) Be a nonconformist.
(b) Live in nature.
(c) Follow man's laws.
(d) Follow God's laws.

4. To whom does Emerson attribute the term "transcendentalism"?
(a) Henry David Thoreau.
(b) Immanuel Kant.
(c) The Buddha.
(d) President Abraham Lincoln.

5. How should history be understood, according to Emerson's essay "History"?
(a) As subjective narrative.
(b) As a piece of the puzzle of the human experience.
(c) As the first and most basic art form.
(d) As biography.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do we pass through life, according to "Experience"?

2. Where did Emerson deliver "The Lord's Supper" as a sermon?

3. Whom does Emerson especially urge to experience their own heroism?

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

5. What happens when you greatly admire or revere someone?

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