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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 9-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Emerson claim "statesmen and philosophers and divines" adore?
(a) Foolish misunderstanding.
(b) Foolish contradiction.
(c) Foolish consistency.
(d) Foolish magnanimity.

3. What does Emerson mean when he writes: "...yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color"?
(a) God will take on form even if you never believed in a deity.
(b) Encourage the artists that paint the likeness of God.
(c) You should give up your life for those that give form to God.
(d) You will find that God has an actual form.

4. What does Emerson say the muscles are moved by in his discussion of company?
(a) The will of others.
(b) Our own will alone.
(c) A low usurping willfulness.
(d) A most disagreeable sensation.

5. Besides children, who does Emerson say God has armed with "piquancy and charm"?
(a) Women.
(b) Invalids.
(c) Infants.
(d) The youth.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Emerson say it is easy to live after your own opinion?

2. Which of the following movements did Emerson NOT mention in his listing of "institutions"?

3. How does Emerson say a man feels when he has said or done something not according to his own will?

4. Emerson says boys try and sentence people and facts based on what?

5. What does Emerson say the world will do to you for nonconformity?

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