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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraph 28-End of Essay.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Emerson explains in his essay exactly what it is that "scares us from self-trust." What is it?
(a) Our need to be the same as others.
(b) Our religious duty.
(c) Our need to please others.
(d) Our fear of God.

2. What does Emerson claim society never does?
(a) Compares.
(b) Looks back.
(c) Advances.
(d) Regrets.

3. What does the soul perceive about Truth and Right in the state of having "life in yourself'?
(a) Their calming effect.
(b) Their self-evidence.
(c) Their self-existence.
(d) Their coexistence with passion.

4. Which virtue is paid to kings, nobles and great proprietors?
(a) Homage.
(b) Loyalty.
(c) Servitude.
(d) Gratitude.

5. How does Emerson describe perception?
(a) Perception is different for each person.
(b) Perception is something one chooses on one's own.
(c) Perception is as much a fact as the sun.
(d) Perception should be contradicted.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emerson suggest one should accept in regards to divine providence?

2. What does Emerson say are "but physiological colors which the eye makes"?

3. Emerson claims that there are "two confessionals, in one or the other of which we must be shriven." What are the confessionals he is referring to?

4. What do Alfred, Scanderbeg and Gustavus have in common?

5. What does Emerson say will explain "the magnetism which all original action exerts"?

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