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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 not recommend dragging about in his discussion of past acts?
(a) The carcass of your consistency.
(b) The corpse of your memory.
(c) The burden of the public.
(d) The deadweight of contradiction.

2. Emerson says that another person of greater obedience can master him, although he does not do what?
(a) Appeal to armies.
(b) Openly challenge him.
(c) Raise his finger.
(d) Speak a single word.

3. Who or what does Emerson say he is living his life for?
(a) Himself.
(b) The higher good of society.
(c) God.
(d) Itself.

4. What does Emerson claim is the virtue "in most request"?
(a) Self-reliance.
(b) Innocence.
(c) Conformity.
(d) Formidability.

5. How does Emerson say adults feel in looking into the faces of children?
(a) Conquered.
(b) Powerful.
(c) Hopeful.
(d) Disconcerted.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emerson wish adults could return to?

2. What does "Ne te quaesiveris extra" mean?

3. What does Emerson say causes a man to come to the conviction that "...envy is ignorance"?

4. How does Emerson say a man can recognize what he is capable of?

5. Emerson explains in his essay exactly what it is that "scares us from self-trust." What is it?

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