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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. What did Plato emphasize over the body, according to "Plato, or the Philosopher"?
(a) Human relationships.
(b) The human soul.
(c) Faith.
(d) The heart.

2. What kind of friendship does Emerson prefer?
(a) A long-distance friendship.
(b) A friendship that is "evenly matched."
(c) A rough kind of friendship.
(d) An intellectual friendship.

3. What word or phrase means a belief that God's grace allows an individual to ignore all laws, divine and terrestrial?
(a) Entitlement.
(b) Divine providence.
(c) Faith.
(d) Antinomianism.

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

5. What aspect of man does "Nominalist and Realist" delve into?
(a) Spirituality.
(b) Bipolar nature.
(c) Greed.
(d) Psychology.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Plato's teacher?

2. What did Emerson say about communion in "The Lord's Supper"?

3. How does nature affect mankind, according to Emerson?

4. How was "The Transcendentalist" originally delivered?

5. How should history be understood, according to Emerson's essay "History"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the two qualifications for a good gift, according to "Gifts"?

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

3. According to "New England Reformers", what does a reformist attitude challenge?

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

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

6. According to "Experience", why do most people not recognize the changes in their lives until they are looking in retrospect?

7. According to "Circles", how must humans adapt to the constant state of change that exists?

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

9. What two problems with communion does Emerson explain at the end of "The Lord's Supper"?

10. What do the nominalists and realists each have on their sides, according to Emerson?

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