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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 does Emerson claim is the virtue "in most request"?
(a) Innocence.
(b) Formidability.
(c) Self-reliance.
(d) Conformity.

2. Which of the following did Emerson NOT say by name is misunderstood?
(a) Plato
(b) Jesus
(c) Socrates
(d) Luther

3. What does Emerson insist a man must be in order to really be a man?
(a) Genuine.
(b) Fearless.
(c) Self-reliant.
(d) Nonconformist.

4. Which of the following does Emerson NOT use as an example of self-sufficiency?
(a) The creation of a planet.
(b) A rose blooming after a storm.
(c) A child growing up to be a man.
(d) A tree recovering from a storm.

5. What does Emerson say he has difficulty detecting when people "maintain a dead church"?
(a) The precise man one is.
(b) The precise source of one's conviction.
(c) The precise tone of one's character.
(d) The precise nature of one's beliefs.

Short Answer Questions

1. At which point is a person willing to "let the words go"?

2. What is it that man no longer dares to say, according to Emerson?

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

4. What does Emerson claim we have become, in stating that man will see that we need his ethics?

5. What does the soul perceive about Truth and Right in the state of having "life in yourself'?

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