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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraph 28-End of Essay.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What rule of wisdom does Emerson seem to find in his discussion of society's views of past acts?
(a) Never rely on your memory alone.
(b) Always rely on the memory of others.
(c) Never rely on the memories of others.
(d) Always rely on your memory alone.

2. Emerson laments that strong intellects "dare not yet hear God himself, unless he speak the phraseology of..." whom?
(a) David, or Jeremiah or Paul.
(b) Luther, or Milton or Plato.
(c) Society at large.
(d) Lukas, or Daniel or Isaiah.

3. Emerson states that we are "like children" who do what?
(a) "Repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors."
(b) "Are perfect at every moment."
(c) "Postpone that which inevitably must come."
(d) "Do not yet understand the truth we witness."

4. What does Emerson say are "but physiological colors which the eye makes"?
(a) Reality and perception.
(b) Light and dark.
(c) Time and space.
(d) Belief and wisdom.

5. At what have men looked "so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned, and civil institutions as guards"?
(a) The cross.
(b) Things.
(c) Institutions.
(d) Themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emerson say Joseph does with his coat?

2. Emerson says we should do what instead of sitting down to "cry for company" with others?

3. Which of the following examples does Emerson NOT name in conjunction with the attribute of the Supreme Cause?

4. What does Emerson claim has happened to "the highest truth on this subject" in referencing the point of the essay overall?

5. What does Emerson say goes with him everywhere he goes?

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