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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 Emerson wish adults could return to?
(a) Their carelessness.
(b) Their youth.
(c) Their neutrality.
(d) Their true state.

2. Besides children, who does Emerson say God has armed with "piquancy and charm"?
(a) Infants.
(b) Invalids.
(c) The youth.
(d) Women.

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

4. What does Emerson say man is jailed by?
(a) His interests.
(b) Other people.
(c) The youth.
(d) His consciousness.

5. 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) Lukas, or Daniel or Isaiah.
(d) David, or Jeremiah or Paul.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emerson call "primary wisdom"?

2. What rule of wisdom does Emerson seem to find in his discussion of society's views of past acts?

3. Emerson explains what underlies the present and life and death. What is it?

4. When does Emerson claim that the luster "will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen"?

5. What does Emerson call "...pretty oracles nature yields us..." when talking about examples of trusting oneself?

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