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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Emerson say a character is "like an acrostic"?
(a) No matter how you read it, it always spells the same thing.
(b) Human character is puzzling.
(c) Trying to understand one's character can be fun.
(d) Human character is ever-changing.

2. What is Emerson referring to when he states: "It will be found symmetrical" in talking about consistency vs. contradiction?
(a) A good character is always the same on the outside as on the inside.
(b) A man's character reflects the society he lives in.
(c) Emerson's own thoughts reflect his life.
(d) Every man's character reflects his own life.

3. What does Emerson say members are required to surrender in his comparison to joint-stock companies?
(a) Culture and education.
(b) Nature and freedom.
(c) Liberty and freedom.
(d) Liberty and culture.

4. What does Emerson claim men believe about how they communicate their character?
(a) They believe they can communicate their virtue without their vice.
(b) They believe they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions.
(c) They believe their virtue and vice emit a breath every moment.
(d) They believe that communicating virtuous actions makes up for their vice.

5. When does Emerson claim that the luster "will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen"?
(a) When men begin to realize their own value.
(b) When men act with original views.
(c) When men begin to trust in themselves.
(d) When men begin using their reason.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Emerson suggesting with his mention of Joseph and his coat?

2. What does Emerson suggest is required to withstand the "rage of the cultivated classes" and the "indignation of the people"?

3. What does Emerson say is most important about verses like the ones he mentions at the beginning of the first paragraph?

4. Emerson says boys try and sentence people and facts based on what?

5. At which point is a person willing to "let the words go"?

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