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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 claim most men have attached themselves to?
(a) The opinion of a woman.
(b) Their own opinions.
(c) One community of opinion.
(d) The opinions of their contemporaries.

2. What "...may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted..."?
(a) The character that makes an impression on us.
(b) Our own preestablished harmony.
(c) The divine idea each of us represents.
(d) The power that resides in us.

3. Which of the following did Emerson NOT say by name is misunderstood?
(a) Plato
(b) Socrates
(c) Luther
(d) Jesus

4. According to Emerson, when will man finally be happy?
(a) When he lives in harmony with his character, beyond blame.
(b) When he lives with a reverted eye, beyond the past.
(c) When he lives in harmony with nature, above all.
(d) When he lives with nature in the present, above time.

5. Which story does Emerson tell to get his point across about self-perception?
(a) That of a poor man taken to a duke's house and told he is the duke.
(b) That of a duke who leaves his riches behind to become a poor man.
(c) That of a poor man who trusts himself enough to become a duke.
(d) That of a duke taken to a poor man's house and told he is a poor man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Emerson laments that strong intellects "dare not yet hear God himself, unless he speak the phraseology of..." whom?

2. Which faith does Emerson NOT mention as an example of "creeds and churches"?

3. What does conformity explain?

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

5. What does Emerson say it requires to "cast off the common motives of humanity"?

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