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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Emancipation in the British West Indies.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Emerson say we become aware of the changes in our lives brought on by experience?
(a) In retrospect.
(b) Through prayer.
(c) By living our lives.
(d) By observing those same changes in other people's lives.

2. True prudence does not question ______ laws.
(a) Natural.
(b) God's.
(c) Man's.
(d) Spiritual.

3. How are eccentricities dealt with in people who are otherwise fit to enter a mannered upper class?
(a) They are molded into good manners.
(b) They are politely ignored.
(c) They become a matter of amusement.
(d) They become ammunition for expulsion from that upper class.

4. What does Plato's concept of the dichotomy of the body and soul provide the foundation for, according to Emerson?
(a) The afterlife.
(b) America's bipartisanism.
(c) Christianity's monotheism.
(d) Paganism's polytheism.

5. What type of man idolized Napoleon, according to Emerson?
(a) His idolization spanned all types of men.
(b) The intellectual man.
(c) The common man.
(d) The natural man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What view does Emerson take of human love in "Love"?

2. What is the only permanent thing in the universe, according to Emerson?

3. How does the love between a man and woman usually begin?

4. According to Emerson, what is a faint reflection of proper manners?

5. What is another phrase for the over-soul, according to Emerson?

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