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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Abraham Lincoln.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT learned by humans to survive culturally?
(a) New survival strategies.
(b) New behaviors.
(c) New languages.
(d) New skills.

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

3. Which of the following is NOT a way men of genius maintain their distance from others?
(a) Courtesy.
(b) Fear.
(c) Solitude.
(d) An acid tongue.

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

5. According to Emerson, it is the challenge of American scholars to foster and support the development of truly American ______ and ______.
(a) Culture; literature.
(b) Language; literature.
(c) Thought; culture.
(d) Thought; language.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what does Emerson say men truly learn?

3. What kind of excellence does the farmer have, according to Emerson?

4. Who said, "Do not flatter your benefactors"?

5. What does "Emancipation in the British West Indies" celebrate?

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