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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 does genuine action explain?
(a) One's character.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Everything.
(d) Itself.

2. What does Emerson say is a conspiracy against manhood?
(a) The world.
(b) Nature.
(c) Society.
(d) Joint-stock companies.

3. What "...may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted..."?
(a) The power that resides in us.
(b) Our own preestablished harmony.
(c) The divine idea each of us represents.
(d) The character that makes an impression on us.

4. Where does Emerson say it is easy to live after the world's opinion?
(a) In the world.
(b) In your community.
(c) Among friends.
(d) At home.

5. "The voyage of the best ship is..."
(a) A steady flowing path.
(b) A course of a hundred decisions.
(c) A journey to a faraway land.
(d) A zigzag line.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Emerson say is most important about verses like the ones he mentions at the beginning of the first paragraph?

3. What is "Himmaleh"?

4. What does Emerson claim most men have attached themselves to?

5. What word does Emerson use to describe people who live their own opinion "in the midst of the crowd"?

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