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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Emerson, every man is both ______ and partialist.
(a) Universalist.
(b) Spiritualist.
(c) Humanist.
(d) Pantheist.

2. Whose principles, which led to a new age in quantum physics, are similar to the ideas hinted at in "Circles"?
(a) Leonard Hofstadter's.
(b) Gabriele Veneziano's.
(c) Albert Einstein's.
(d) Robert Oppenheimer's.

3. How is truth revealed, according to "Intellect"?
(a) As a wandering light.
(b) As a wave in the ocean.
(c) As a butterfly from a caterpillar.
(d) As a bolt of lightning.

4. What is the only permanent thing in the universe, according to Emerson?
(a) Impermanence.
(b) God.
(c) Scientific thought.
(d) Mathematics.

5. Who is the author of "Selected Writings"?
(a) Henry David Thoreau.
(b) Plato.
(c) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(d) Napoleon.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was "Nature" published?

2. Why are nominalists more popular?

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

4. What aspect of man does "Nominalist and Realist" delve into?

5. How does Emerson say we become aware of the changes in our lives brought on by experience?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is each person's vocation discovered, according to "Spiritual Laws"? How is one's potential realized?

2. What two major failings of the church does Emerson explain in "An Address"?

3. According to "The Lord's Supper", what does Emerson say is the purpose of the Lord's Supper in Christian ritual? What does he say should be the focus?

4. How does Emerson define character? What analogy does he use in his definition?

5. According to "The Over-Soul", what is the over-soul? What happens when individuals come together for the purpose of spiritual growth?

6. According to "Self-Reliance", what is the relationship between conformity and being a man?

7. According to "Nature", what is the role of nature?

8. What is transcendentalism, according to "Nature"?

9. What three categories of people does prudence manifest itself into, according to "Prudence"?

10. According to "Art", from where does all art evolve? What is its purpose?

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