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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. What do Alfred, Scanderbeg and Gustavus have in common?
(a) They all are dukes.
(b) They all are kings.
(c) They all lead their people to great riches.
(d) They all protect their kingdoms against powerful enemies.

2. 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?
(a) God and others.
(b) God and the Church.
(c) Others and the self.
(d) God and the self.

3. Emerson laments that strong intellects "dare not yet hear God himself, unless he speak the phraseology of..." whom?
(a) Society at large.
(b) Luther, or Milton or Plato.
(c) David, or Jeremiah or Paul.
(d) Lukas, or Daniel or Isaiah.

4. What is Emerson referring to when he states: "It will be found symmetrical" in talking about consistency vs. contradiction?
(a) Every man's character reflects his own life.
(b) A man's character reflects the society he lives in.
(c) A good character is always the same on the outside as on the inside.
(d) Emerson's own thoughts reflect his life.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Emerson mean in saying that there "will be power not confident but agent" when the soul is present?

3. To which "iron string" does Emerson say every heart vibrates?

4. What does Emerson say man is jailed by?

5. Whom does Emerson say we should awaken when entering "into the state of war"?

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