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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What state's citizens did Daniel Webster betray?
(a) Maine.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Massachusetts.

2. What was the main argument in favor of the Fugitive Slave Law?
(a) It is easier to protect slaves than to give blacks equal rights.
(b) Slavery is an accepted practice in America.
(c) It is an accepted practice in the British West Indies.
(d) Families should not be punished for the situation slaves are in.

3. What allows humans to survive culturally, according to Emerson?
(a) Faith.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Adaptability.
(d) Education.

4. Whose rights did the Fugitive Slave Law protect?
(a) Free blacks.
(b) Slaveholders.
(c) Slaves.
(d) Families of slaves.

5. What did Emerson think of slavery?
(a) He thought it could be reformed to be an effective practice.
(b) He thought it would soon be obsolete as machines took the places of slaves.
(c) He thought it was a necessary evil.
(d) He thought it was inherently evil.

6. Who signed the Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) The Senate.
(b) President Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Daniel Webster.
(d) The House of Representatives.

7. What word does Emerson use to describe Napoleon's intellect?
(a) Average.
(b) Action-based.
(c) Genius.
(d) Spiritual.

8. Where was Thoreau happiest, according to Emerson?
(a) In the city.
(b) On the ocean.
(c) Among people.
(d) In nature.

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

10. In what city did John Brown lead a revolt?
(a) Boston.
(b) New York City.
(c) Harpers Ferry.
(d) Pittsburgh.

11. What does culture allow humans to do, according to "Culture"?
(a) Live together in harmony.
(b) Evolve.
(c) Learn.
(d) Understand each other.

12. What is the "ill-fated, much-injured race," according to "The Emancipation Proclamation"?
(a) Jews.
(b) Whites.
(c) Romans.
(d) African-Americans.

13. What denomination did Ripley come from?
(a) Catholic.
(b) Quaker.
(c) Puritanism.
(d) Anglican.

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

15. What does history favor in regard to the issue of slavery?
(a) Political discourse.
(b) The wealthy.
(c) Popular practice.
(d) Human rights and abolition.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of men do the hard work of farming?

2. Why is the accumulation of wealth a virtue, according to Emerson?

3. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?

4. What do the Magna Carta, American Revolution, and habeas corpus reveal about the English?

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

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