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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Emerson say that it is difficult to live his rule?
(a) Because you will always find people who know your duty better than you.
(b) Because you will never find friends.
(c) Because you will always find people who know your character better than you.
(d) Because you will always have to worry about what other people think

2. On what does Emerson say we will be advancing if we live as "guides, redeemers and benefactors"?
(a) Evil and Chaos.
(b) Evil and the Dark.
(c) Chaos and the Devil.
(d) Chaos and the Dark.

3. What does Emerson say is a conspiracy against manhood?
(a) Society.
(b) Nature.
(c) Joint-stock companies.
(d) The world.

4. What does Emerson say is most important about verses like the ones he mentions at the beginning of the first paragraph?
(a) The sentiment they instill.
(b) The writer's true feelings.
(c) The writer's character.
(d) The thoughts they contain.

5. What does Emerson say tendency does to variety of actions?
(a) Tendency kills the distinctness of variety.
(b) Tendency makes good any vice in a variety of actions.
(c) Tendency steers the course of a variety of actions.
(d) Tendency unites all actions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are "sallies" of will?

2. What does Emerson claim is the only thing that is sacred?

3. Emerson explains in his essay exactly what it is that "scares us from self-trust." What is it?

4. What does Emerson say a man will find himself if he exercises his reason?

5. What does Emerson say happens to the "voices which we hear in solitude" as we enter into the world?

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