View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, with friendship, creates a "cordial goodwill," according to "Friendship"?
(a) Goodwill.
(b) Love.
(c) Nothing; all that is needed is friendship.
(d) Cordiality.

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

3. According to "Compensation", by what is mankind defined?
(a) Pluralism.
(b) Dualism.
(c) Singularity.
(d) Spirituality.

4. How do people try to change old patterns in their lives?
(a) Rebelling against the way they were raised.
(b) Art and music.
(c) Drugs and alcohol.
(d) Education and philosophy.

5. Whom does Emerson especially urge to experience their own heroism?
(a) Children.
(b) Women.
(c) The downtrodden.
(d) Religious mystics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does true friendship require, according to Emerson?

2. How should one be a man, according to "Self-Reliance"?

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

4. According to Emerson, heroism is the unwavering determination to do the right thing combined with a supremely ______.

5. What is another phrase for the over-soul, according to Emerson?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Emerson think of Plato, according to "Plato; or, the Philosopher"? What indicates this?

5. What are the differences between materialism and idealism, according to "The Transcendentalist"?

6. What are the categories Emerson divides the world into in his essay "Nature"?

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

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

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

10. According to "Compensation", how does nature maintain balance? How can one maintain balance on earth?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 741 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample