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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) Liberty and culture.
(b) Culture and education.
(c) Nature and freedom.
(d) Liberty and freedom.

2. Who does Emerson say babies conform to?
(a) Nobody.
(b) Everybody.
(c) Their parents.
(d) The world at large.

3. What does Emerson say happens to the "voices which we hear in solitude" as we enter into the world?
(a) They become louder and more powerful.
(b) They grow faint and inaudible.
(c) They become abstract.
(d) They are affected by others.

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

5. Emerson says boys try and sentence people and facts based on what?
(a) Their intuition.
(b) Their characters.
(c) Their own mind.
(d) Their merits.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Emerson insist men carry themselves in the presence of?

3. How does Emerson say adults feel in looking into the faces of children?

4. What does Emerson say is the lesson great works of art teach us?

5. Why does Emerson say we distrust our sentiment?

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