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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Society and Solitude.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to "Compensation", which of the following is NOT one of the realms mentioned that achieves a balance between positive and negative forces?
(a) Natural.
(b) Societal.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Human.

2. How do we pass through life, according to "Experience"?
(a) As children in a maze.
(b) Unaware that it is miraculous.
(c) Pausing to learn from experience.
(d) Vain to think we make a difference in any life except our own.

3. What is one aspect of the English Emerson admires?
(a) Their slow-to-anger steadiness.
(b) Their government rituals.
(c) Their military.
(d) Their spirituality.

4. How was "The Transcendentalist" originally delivered?
(a) As a eulogy.
(b) As a lecture.
(c) As a letter to Henry David Thoreau.
(d) As a commencement address.

5. Where did Emerson deliver "The Lord's Supper" as a sermon?
(a) St. Louis Cathedral.
(b) The Second Church of Boston.
(c) Westminster Abbey.
(d) Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. True prudence does not question ______ laws.

3. To whom or what is "Conduct of Life" a love letter?

4. What did Plato emphasize over the body, according to "Plato, or the Philosopher"?

5. How should history be understood, according to Emerson's essay "History"?

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