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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. Emerson compares society to what in saying "(it) moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not"?
(a) An ocean.
(b) A river.
(c) A wave.
(d) A stream.

2. What is a hieroglyphic as referred to in talking about virtue paid to kings, nobles and great proprietors?
(a) A puzzle.
(b) A monument.
(c) An Egyptian pictogram.
(d) A symbol.

3. What kind of prayer does Emerson call "vicious"?
(a) Prayer that craves a particular commodity.
(b) Prayer that appeals thoughtlessly to God.
(c) Dishonest prayer.
(d) Disheartened prayer.

4. What does Emerson say we can know about justice?
(a) From whence it comes.
(b) The soul that caused it.
(c) Its presence and its absence.
(d) Its beauty.

5. What does Emerson say members are required to surrender in his comparison to joint-stock companies?
(a) Nature and freedom.
(b) Culture and education.
(c) Liberty and culture.
(d) Liberty and freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emerson say it requires to "cast off the common motives of humanity"?

2. No one but whom can teach us "that which (we) can do best"?

3. What "...may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted..."?

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

5. On what does Emerson say we will be advancing if we live as "guides, redeemers and benefactors"?

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