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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 9-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is "Himmaleh"?
(a) The Himalayan mountain range.
(b) A great ship.
(c) A place like heaven.
(d) An imaginary creature.

2. Emerson says boys try and sentence people and facts based on what?
(a) Their characters.
(b) Their intuition.
(c) Their own mind.
(d) Their merits.

3. 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) Your own ideas of God are unimportant.
(b) It is acceptable to change one's mind.
(c) You must be wary of religious emotion.
(d) We can never truly know what God is like.

4. What kind of expression does Emerson say that we begin to acquire with conformity?
(a) The gentlest perceptive expression.
(b) The gentlest rational expression.
(c) The gentlest weak-minded expression.
(d) The gentlest asinine expression.

5. What does Emerson say he can anticipate if he knows your sect?
(a) Your thoughts.
(b) Your heart.
(c) Your beliefs.
(d) Your argument.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emerson suggest one should accept in regards to divine providence?

2. What does Emerson say a man speaking his opinions would do to other men?

3. "The voyage of the best ship is..."

4. How does Emerson say a man feels when he has done his best?

5. What does Emerson call "...pretty oracles nature yields us..." when talking about examples of trusting oneself?

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