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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 does genuine action explain?
(a) One's character.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Itself.
(d) Everything.

2. Which of the following countries does Emerson NOT mention in talking about traveling?
(a) Greece.
(b) Italy.
(c) China.
(d) Egypt.

3. Emerson compares society to what in saying "(it) moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not"?
(a) A wave.
(b) A stream.
(c) An ocean.
(d) A river.

4. Why does Emerson say about children's minds?
(a) Their minds are uninfluenced.
(b) Their minds are undeveloped.
(c) Their minds are whole.
(d) Their minds are untrustworthy.

5. What does Emerson call "primary wisdom"?
(a) A sense of being.
(b) Intuition.
(c) The fundamental essence of one's own character.
(d) Spontaneity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which words does Emerson want to have "gazetted and ridiculous henceforward"?

2. How does Emerson measure the degree to which a thing is real?

3. What does Emerson insist a man must be in order to really be a man?

4. What claim does Emerson make about the force of character?

5. Emerson states that we are "like children" who do what?

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