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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Emerson say every man is not duplicitous for not only being partialist?
(a) It is simply the way the human mind works.
(b) Emerson says men are duplicitous.
(c) He can move between viewpoints, but is not both simultaneously.
(d) He really is only a partialist, except when in conversation with other philosophers.

3. In what does Emerson say men truly learn?
(a) Education and experience.
(b) Solitude.
(c) Both solitude and society.
(d) Society.

4. What form does "Emancipation in the British West Indies" take?
(a) A letter.
(b) A brochure.
(c) A tract.
(d) A poem.

5. How do we pass through life, according to "Experience"?
(a) Unaware that it is miraculous.
(b) Pausing to learn from experience.
(c) Vain to think we make a difference in any life except our own.
(d) As children in a maze.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of man idolized Napoleon, according to Emerson?

2. In what year did John Brown lead a revolt?

3. What does Emerson see evidence of everywhere he looks in society?

4. What arose as the most equitable way of protecting individual rights, according to "Politics"?

5. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the best gift, according to "Gifts"?

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