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

2. How does Emerson say one should keep a healthy balance on earth, according to "Compensation"?
(a) Repay all debts as soon as possible.
(b) Give back to society.
(c) Give back to nature.
(d) Do not acquire wealth.

3. Why are nominalists more popular?
(a) They are "louder" in expressing their beliefs.
(b) They are quieter about their beliefs.
(c) Their general ideas about things are how we intuitively understand the world.
(d) They have been around longer.

4. Whose minds are formed in a certain direction, according to "Spiritual Laws"?
(a) The unenlightened.
(b) Philosophers.
(c) Animals.
(d) Warriors.

5. What age did Napoleon usher in that the West had yet to recover from, according to Emerson?
(a) Selfishness and materialism.
(b) Intellectualism and Spirituality.
(c) The Industrial Age.
(d) A fascination with New Age mysticism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emerson believe about nature?

2. What seldom-acknowledged factor in coloring people's experience is a large part of everyone's life?

3. What is the first poem in the collection "Poetry"?

4. What contemporary of Emerson's can be seen in his poem "Uriel"?

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

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