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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 say man is jailed by?
(a) His consciousness.
(b) Other people.
(c) His interests.
(d) The youth.

2. What does Emerson call "primary wisdom"?
(a) The fundamental essence of one's own character.
(b) Intuition.
(c) Spontaneity.
(d) A sense of being.

3. Who instructed the world, according to Emerson?
(a) The world's geniuses.
(b) The world's priests.
(c) The world's kings.
(d) The world's teachers.

4. What does Emerson wish adults could return to?
(a) Their neutrality.
(b) Their carelessness.
(c) Their true state.
(d) Their youth.

5. What is Emerson describing when he states: "In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity: yet when the devout motions of the soul come ... they should clothe God with shape and color"?
(a) You must be wary of religious emotion.
(b) We can never truly know what God is like.
(c) It is acceptable to change one's mind.
(d) Your own ideas of God are unimportant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Emerson explains what underlies the present and life and death. What is it?

2. Which effort does Emerson insist we obey?

3. How does Emerson measure the degree to which a thing is real?

4. What is a hieroglyphic as referred to in talking about virtue paid to kings, nobles and great proprietors?

5. What does Emerson say is the lesson great works of art teach us?

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