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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. Why does Emerson say about children's minds?
(a) Their minds are untrustworthy.
(b) Their minds are uninfluenced.
(c) Their minds are whole.
(d) Their minds are undeveloped.

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

3. What does Emerson say one should ask the "invaders" to do since "God is here within"?
(a) Go for a walk.
(b) Take off their shoes.
(c) Stay away.
(d) Finally be calm.

4. Which of the following does Emerson NOT say "looks abroad" in talking about mimicking other countries?
(a) Our Passion.
(b) Our Religion.
(c) Our Art.
(d) Our Education.

5. What is Emerson suggesting with his mention of Joseph and his coat?
(a) That we flee from God and religion.
(b) That we abandon previous theories.
(c) That we flee from contradiction.
(d) That we abandon the need to conform.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Emerson claim power ceases?

2. What does Emerson say causes a man to come to the conviction that "...envy is ignorance"?

3. Emerson says that another person of greater obedience can master him, although he does not do what?

4. What rule of wisdom does Emerson seem to find in his discussion of society's views of past acts?

5. What do young men do if they fail in their first enterprises?

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