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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To whom or what is "Conduct of Life" a love letter?
(a) Academia.
(b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(c) Emerson's wife.
(d) Capitalism.

3. What view does Emerson take of human love in "Love"?
(a) Spiritual.
(b) Emotional.
(c) Logical.
(d) Physical.

4. What kind of success did Napoleon focus on?
(a) Intellectual.
(b) Military.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Material.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what does Emerson say men truly learn?

2. To whom is "Ezra Ripley, D.D." a tribute?

3. What, with friendship, creates a "cordial goodwill," according to "Friendship"?

4. What example does Emerson use in "Spiritual Laws" to demonstrate the effects of force-feeding children questions and answers of little interest?

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

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