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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 19-27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Emerson claim "statesmen and philosophers and divines" adore?
(a) Foolish contradiction.
(b) Foolish magnanimity.
(c) Foolish misunderstanding.
(d) Foolish consistency.

2. What does Emerson say Joseph does with his coat?
(a) Leaves it "in the hand of the harlot."
(b) Leaves it behind "like an empty husk."
(c) Leaves it "among the darkest enemy."
(d) Leaves it "under the cloak of night."

3. Emerson mentions something personal to him that makes "no reference" to the past and simply exists with God today. What is it?
(a) His patron saint.
(b) His house.
(c) His book.
(d) His roses.

4. How does Emerson describe the relationship between the soul and the "divine spirit"?
(a) Harmonious.
(b) Loving.
(c) Strained.
(d) Pure.

5. What does Emerson mean in saying that there "will be power not confident but agent" when the soul is present?
(a) We do not confide our power to others.
(b) We do not hope for power, we have power.
(c) Our power lives.
(d) Our power is not prideful.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Emerson say it is easy to live after the world's opinion?

2. What does Emerson say conspires against "the sanity and authority of the soul"?

3. How does Emerson say it is easy to live after your own opinion?

4. Emerson claims that man "stands on tiptoe" to see what?

5. What does genuine action explain?

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