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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 is the title of Thoreau's best known work?
(a) "Leaves of Grass".
(b) "The Aeneid".
(c) "Walden".
(d) "The Waste Land".
2. Why is the accumulation of wealth a virtue, according to Emerson?
(a) It secures man his future.
(b) It secures man his independence.
(c) It secures man his power.
(d) It secures man his family.
3. How does Emerson describe Ripley?
(a) Cold.
(b) Friendly to the point of being naive.
(c) A natural gentlemen.
(d) Overbearing.
4. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
(a) 1862.
(b) 1860.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1863.
5. What age did Napoleon usher in that the West had yet to recover from, according to Emerson?
(a) Intellectualism and Spirituality.
(b) A fascination with New Age mysticism.
(c) The Industrial Age.
(d) Selfishness and materialism.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the "ill-fated, much-injured race," according to "The Emancipation Proclamation"?
2. What does culture allow humans to do, according to "Culture"?
3. Which of the following is NOT a way men of genius maintain their distance from others?
4. On what day did Emerson deliver "Emancipation in the British West Indies"?
5. What is the subject of "The Problem"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain the Emancipation Proclamation.
2. Explain the events that led to John Brown's death.
3. According to "Napoleon; or, the Man of the World", what evidence is there that Napoleon was a genius?
4. Why did Emerson write "Abraham Lincoln"? How did New Englanders feel about this?
5. What does Emerson think of Daniel Webster? Why?
6. What three things does Emerson say Thomas Carlyle was?
7. In what three ways do geniuses maintain their distance from others?
8. What did Emerson say about the South in "The Emancipation Proclamation"? Why?
9. How does Emerson say a truly clever man accumulates wealth? What examples does Emerson give?
10. What is the purpose of "Ezra Ripley, D.D."? Where was it presented?
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