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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 are boys sure of in Emerson's example of how boys speak their mind?
(a) Their friends.
(b) Themselves.
(c) Their parents.
(d) Their dinner.

2. What does Emerson say will happen if one does not put his heart into his work?
(a) His friends will desert him.
(b) God will desert him.
(c) His genius will desert him.
(d) His family will desert him.

3. What does Emerson not recommend dragging about in his discussion of past acts?
(a) The corpse of your memory.
(b) The burden of the public.
(c) The deadweight of contradiction.
(d) The carcass of your consistency.

4. What "...may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted..."?
(a) The divine idea each of us represents.
(b) Our own preestablished harmony.
(c) The character that makes an impression on us.
(d) The power that resides in us.

5. What does Emerson suggest about philanthropy?
(a) Philanthropy is the highest good.
(b) Philanthropy can be malice and vanity in disguise.
(c) Philanthropy is our obligation to poor men.
(d) It is our right to be philanthropic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emerson insist a man must be in order to really be a man?

2. What does Emerson say the muscles are moved by in his discussion of company?

3. What does Emerson say he can anticipate if he knows your sect?

4. What reason does Emerson give for good deeds?

5. What does Emerson give as his reason for insisting that we "...must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny..."?

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