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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Emerson describe culture AND humans?
(a) Not unlike nature.
(b) Plastic.
(c) Malleable.
(d) Gold.

3. What arose as the most equitable way of protecting individual rights, according to "Politics"?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Serfdom.
(c) Monarchy.
(d) Democracy.

4. What is the ultimate effect of two lovers drawing closer to each other spiritually?
(a) Drawing closer to each other emotionally.
(b) Drawing closer to each other physically.
(c) Drawing closer to God.
(d) Understanding each other on an intellectual level.

5. What contemporary of Emerson's is suggested in his poem "Forerunners"?
(a) William Wordsworth.
(b) T. S. Eliot.
(c) William Blake.
(d) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is bereft of models of heroism, according to Emerson's "Heroism"?

2. What philosopher did Emerson say was the beginning and end of all philosophy?

3. What does Emerson link with transcendentalism in "The Transcendentalist"?

4. What is one danger of over-refinement?

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

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