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

2. In what state did John Brown lead a revolt?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) New York.

3. What was Thoreau's full name?
(a) Henry David Thoreau.
(b) Samuel Taylor Thoreau.
(c) Thomas Stephen Thoreau.
(d) Jason William Thoreau.

4. What role does the farmer play to mankind, according to "Farming"?
(a) Continuous benefactor.
(b) It is a symbiotic relationship.
(c) He determines all the actions for the rest of his society.
(d) He takes from mankind much more than is given back.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one danger of over-refinement?

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

3. What was Carlyle's career?

4. What kind of income does the farmer usually earn?

5. What kind of a president does Emerson say Lincoln was?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to "Culture", what is culture? How does it develop?

2. List at least three negative qualities Napoleon possessed. What effect did he have on modern society?

3. What is the purpose of "Ezra Ripley, D.D."? Where was it presented?

4. How does Emerson describe Brown in "John Brown"?

5. Explain the Fugitive Slave Law, which is the subject of "The Fugitive Slave Law". Who was behind it?

6. How does Emerson say a truly clever man accumulates wealth? What examples does Emerson give?

7. What dichotomy in Carlyle does Emerson explain in "Carlyle"?

8. How does Emerson describe the English as a people?

9. What example does Emerson give in "Thoreau" of Thoreau's individualism?

10. According to "Napoleon; or, the Man of the World", what evidence is there that Napoleon was a genius?

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