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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 say members are trying to secure in his comparison to joint-stock companies?
(a) Their jobs.
(b) Their reputations.
(c) Their profits.
(d) Their bread.

2. What does Emerson recommend we do in our relationships with our family?
(a) Ask them for help in building our self-reliance.
(b) Stop living according to their expectations.
(c) Accept them for who they are.
(d) Help them build their own self-reliance.

3. Emerson explains what underlies the present and life and death. What is it?
(a) The pure love of God.
(b) That which I think and feel.
(c) Vision and understanding.
(d) Nature in all its glory.

4. Whom does Emerson say we should awaken when entering "into the state of war"?
(a) Zeus and Hera.
(b) Thor and Woden.
(c) Mars and Jupiter.
(d) Camulus and Cocidius.

5. What does conformity explain?
(a) One's fear.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Itself.
(d) Everything.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Emerson states, "The way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new." What does he mean?

3. Which of the following examples does Emerson NOT name in conjunction with the attribute of the Supreme Cause?

4. What does Emerson say a man should learn to detect and watch?

5. What word does Emerson use to describe people who live their own opinion "in the midst of the crowd"?

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