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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Emerson say it is easy to live after your own opinion?
(a) When your contemporaries agree with you.
(b) In your community.
(c) In solitude.
(d) Among friends.

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

3. 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 need to please others.
(d) Our fear of God.

4. What does Emerson insist a man must be in order to really be a man?
(a) Fearless.
(b) Genuine.
(c) Self-reliant.
(d) Nonconformist.

5. What does "Ne te quaesiveris extra" mean?
(a) Do not look outside yourself.
(b) Man is his own star.
(c) Do not reach outside yourself.
(d) Every man should do extra work.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Emerson say babies conform to?

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

3. What is an institution the lengthened shadow of?

4. What rule of wisdom does Emerson seem to find in his discussion of society's views of past acts?

5. How does Emerson say a man feels when he has done his best?

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