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

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

3. What does Emerson say Joseph does with his coat?
(a) Leaves it "in the hand of the harlot."
(b) Leaves it behind "like an empty husk."
(c) Leaves it "under the cloak of night."
(d) Leaves it "among the darkest enemy."

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

5. Emerson states, "The way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new." What does he mean?
(a) When we reach that state, we will finally understand what others meant in describing it.
(b) That state is unlike anything we've ever experienced.
(c) Each person experiences that state for himself or herself alone.
(d) That state can be disconcerting in the beginning.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Emerson describe the relationship between the soul and the "divine spirit"?

2. What does genuine action explain?

3. What does Emerson give as his reason for insisting that we "...must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny..."?

4. What does Emerson say about the occurrence of virtues?

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

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