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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 1-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Emerson say the youth speaks forcefully to?
(a) Children.
(b) Their contemporaries.
(c) Seniors.
(d) Women.

3. Who or what does Emerson say he is living his life for?
(a) God.
(b) Itself.
(c) The higher good of society.
(d) Himself.

4. What does Emerson wish adults could return to?
(a) Their neutrality.
(b) Their youth.
(c) Their true state.
(d) Their carelessness.

5. How does Emerson say a man can recognize what he is capable of?
(a) His inner power becomes clear.
(b) His inner voice tells him.
(c) Nature tells him.
(d) He cannot know until he's tried.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emerson say is a conspiracy against manhood?

2. How does Emerson say he wants his life to be?

3. What are boys sure of in Emerson's example of how boys speak their mind?

4. What does Emerson say about the occurrence of virtues?

5. What does Emerson say boys don't worry about?

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