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

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

3. What does Emerson say we can know about justice?
(a) The soul that caused it.
(b) From whence it comes.
(c) Its beauty.
(d) Its presence and its absence.

4. What kind of expression does Emerson say that we begin to acquire with conformity?
(a) The gentlest weak-minded expression.
(b) The gentlest rational expression.
(c) The gentlest asinine expression.
(d) The gentlest perceptive expression.

5. What does Emerson call history a parable of?
(a) Time and space.
(b) My being and becoming.
(c) Phraseology in another country.
(d) Right and wrong.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emerson claim men believe about how they communicate their character?

2. Emerson claims that man "stands on tiptoe" to see what?

3. What does God communicate when he speaks, according to Emerson?

4. What does Emerson say happens to the "voices which we hear in solitude" as we enter into the world?

5. What does Emerson say no man can violate?

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