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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 a man can recognize what he is capable of?
(a) His inner power becomes clear.
(b) His inner voice tells him.
(c) Nature tells him.
(d) He cannot know until he's tried.

2. What does Emerson claim is the only thing that is sacred?
(a) The goodness of the world.
(b) Tradition.
(c) Names and customs.
(d) The integrity of one's own mind.

3. "...the man in the street, finding no worth in himself..." feels poor when he looks on what?
(a) The possessions of others.
(b) Towers and sculptured marble gods.
(c) The palaces of the rich.
(d) Books containing the writings of geniuses.

4. What word does Emerson use to describe people who live their own opinion "in the midst of the crowd"?
(a) Great.
(b) Base.
(c) Ingenious.
(d) Independent.

5. What does Emerson claim men believe about how they communicate their character?
(a) They believe they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions.
(b) They believe their virtue and vice emit a breath every moment.
(c) They believe that communicating virtuous actions makes up for their vice.
(d) They believe they can communicate their virtue without their vice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emerson say he will do if he is the Devil's child?

2. What "...may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted..."?

3. What does Emerson wish adults could return to?

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

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

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