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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 will we gladly do when we have "new perception"?
(a) "Live with God."
(b) "Use words as good when occasion comes."
(c) "Live as strong men."
(d) "Disburden the memory of its hoarded treasures."

2. Emerson states, "The way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new." What does he mean?
(a) When we reach that state, we will finally understand what others meant in describing it.
(b) That state is unlike anything we've ever experienced.
(c) Each person experiences that state for himself or herself alone.
(d) That state can be disconcerting in the beginning.

3. How does Emerson say a cultivated man feels about his property?
(a) Proud.
(b) Satisfied.
(c) Respectful.
(d) Ashamed.

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

5. What does Emerson say happens to the "voices which we hear in solitude" as we enter into the world?
(a) They are affected by others.
(b) They become abstract.
(c) They become louder and more powerful.
(d) They grow faint and inaudible.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emerson say the man who is "really of their class" will be the founder of?

2. "The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost" what?

3. What does Emerson claim society never does?

4. What is Emerson referring to when he writes: "...seated at their heart, working through their hands..." in his description of those living according to his recommendations?

5. What kind of expression does Emerson say that we begin to acquire with conformity?

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