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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 are boys sure of in Emerson's example of how boys speak their mind?
(a) Their parents.
(b) Their dinner.
(c) Their friends.
(d) Themselves.

2. How does Emerson say a man feels when he has done his best?
(a) Restless.
(b) Powerful.
(c) Delivered.
(d) Relieved.

3. Which effort does Emerson insist we obey?
(a) The Divine effort.
(b) The Higher effort.
(c) The Godly effort.
(d) The Almighty effort.

4. What does Emerson suggest about philanthropy?
(a) Philanthropy can be malice and vanity in disguise.
(b) Philanthropy is our obligation to poor men.
(c) Philanthropy is the highest good.
(d) It is our right to be philanthropic.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emerson insist a man must be in order to really be a man?

2. What does Emerson say members are trying to secure in his comparison to joint-stock companies?

3. What does Emerson claim is the only thing that is sacred?

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

5. What does Emerson say he does not need in talking about virtuous action?

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