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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following movements did Emerson NOT mention in his listing of "institutions"?
(a) Monachism.
(b) The Reformation.
(c) The Mongolian Empire.
(d) Abolition.

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

3. How does Emerson say he knows it makes no difference whether he does or forbears "...those actions which are reckoned excellent"?
(a) Society at large gave him the answer.
(b) He knows for himself.
(c) God told him.
(d) His experience told him.

4. What does Emerson suggest is required to withstand the "rage of the cultivated classes" and the "indignation of the people"?
(a) The habit of magnanimity.
(b) A sad countenance.
(c) Decorous and prudent rage.
(d) An unintelligent brute.

5. What does Emerson say happens to the "voices which we hear in solitude" as we enter into the world?
(a) They are affected by others.
(b) They become abstract.
(c) They become louder and more powerful.
(d) They grow faint and inaudible.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. "...the man in the street, finding no worth in himself..." feels poor when he looks on what?

4. On what does Emerson say we will be advancing if we live as "guides, redeemers and benefactors"?

5. What is an institution the lengthened shadow of?

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