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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 "...is all that concerns..." him?
(a) What I must do.
(b) What I believe.
(c) My own charities.
(d) My own thought.

2. What does Emerson say causes a man to come to the conviction that "...envy is ignorance"?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Age.
(c) Education.
(d) Upbringing.

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

4. 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) You should give up your life for those that give form to God.
(b) You will find that God has an actual form.
(c) God will take on form even if you never believed in a deity.
(d) Encourage the artists that paint the likeness of God.

5. According to Emerson, what are heroes attended by?
(a) The worship of others.
(b) An undying light.
(c) Their victories.
(d) A visible escort of angels.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of expression does Emerson say that we begin to acquire with conformity?

2. What does Emerson claim will happen when you do your work?

3. What are boys sure of in Emerson's example of how boys speak their mind?

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

5. What does Emerson say a great soul may as well concern himself with as with consistency?

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