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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 19-27.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of expression does Emerson say that we begin to acquire with conformity?
(a) The gentlest perceptive expression.
(b) The gentlest asinine expression.
(c) The gentlest weak-minded expression.
(d) The gentlest rational expression.

3. What does conformity explain?
(a) Itself.
(b) Nothing.
(c) One's fear.
(d) Everything.

4. What does Emerson insist men carry themselves in the presence of?
(a) Decent and well-spoken individuals.
(b) Societies and dead institutions.
(c) God.
(d) All opposition.

5. What does Emerson say a man must know how to estimate in talking about society and nonconformity?
(a) Nonconformists.
(b) A sour face.
(c) The will of others.
(d) Whether others disagree.

Short Answer Questions

1. Emerson explains what underlies the present and life and death. What is it?

2. What does Emerson call "primary wisdom"?

3. What does Emerson claim has happened to "the highest truth on this subject" in referencing the point of the essay overall?

4. What is Emerson suggesting with his mention of Joseph and his coat?

5. Which of the following does Emerson NOT use as an example of self-sufficiency?

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