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Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Emerson say a man should learn to detect and watch?
(a) His true character.
(b) His inner light.
(c) The actions of others.
(d) His own thoughts.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emerson say will happen if one does not put his heart into his work?

2. What does Emerson claim is the virtue "in most request"?

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

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

5. Who or what does Emerson say he is living his life for?

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