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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 Emerson say no man can violate?
(a) His nature.
(b) The laws of God.
(c) The laws of nature.
(d) The laws of society.

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

3. What is Emerson describing when he states: "In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity: yet when the devout motions of the soul come ... they should clothe God with shape and color"?
(a) You must be wary of religious emotion.
(b) It is acceptable to change one's mind.
(c) Your own ideas of God are unimportant.
(d) We can never truly know what God is like.

4. Emerson explains in his essay exactly what it is that "scares us from self-trust." What is it?
(a) Our religious duty.
(b) Our need to be the same as others.
(c) Our fear of God.
(d) Our need to please others.

5. What does Emerson give as his reason for insisting that we "...must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny..."?
(a) We are now men.
(b) Society demands this of us.
(c) We must live according to our conscience.
(d) We are old enough.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Emerson say he wants his life to be?

2. What does Emerson say a man should learn to detect and watch?

3. Where does Emerson say it is easy to live after the world's opinion?

4. What does Emerson say man is jailed by?

5. What is an institution the lengthened shadow of?

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