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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which hours does Emerson say "We feel that duty is our place"?
(a) In manly hours.
(b) In self-reliant hours.
(c) In prudent hours.
(d) In honest hours.

2. At what have men looked "so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned, and civil institutions as guards"?
(a) Themselves.
(b) Institutions.
(c) The cross.
(d) Things.

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

4. What does Emerson say will explain "the magnetism which all original action exerts"?
(a) The force of character.
(b) The power of will.
(c) The reason of self-trust.
(d) The right of every man.

5. In the final sentence of "Self-Reliance," Emerson writes: "Nothing can bring you peace but" what?
(a) "The triumph of principles."
(b) "The triumph of your character."
(c) "Yourself."
(d) "Your own will."

6. Emerson laments that strong intellects "dare not yet hear God himself, unless he speak the phraseology of..." whom?
(a) David, or Jeremiah or Paul.
(b) Lukas, or Daniel or Isaiah.
(c) Society at large.
(d) Luther, or Milton or Plato.

7. Which artist does Emerson say "will create a house in which all these will find themselves fitted"?
(a) Phidias.
(b) The self-reliant artist.
(c) The American artist.
(d) Dante.

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

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

10. Which of the following does Emerson NOT say "looks abroad" in talking about mimicking other countries?
(a) Our Art.
(b) Our Passion.
(c) Our Religion.
(d) Our Education.

11. What is it that man no longer dares to say, according to Emerson?
(a) "I won't" and "I disagree."
(b) "I can" and "I believe."
(c) "I want" and "I will."
(d) "I think" and "I am."

12. Which virtue is paid to kings, nobles and great proprietors?
(a) Loyalty.
(b) Homage.
(c) Servitude.
(d) Gratitude.

13. What does Emerson say are "but physiological colors which the eye makes"?
(a) Light and dark.
(b) Belief and wisdom.
(c) Time and space.
(d) Reality and perception.

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

15. "Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which..."?
(a) "...cannot help itself."
(b) "...cannot display power."
(c) "...cannot speak the truth."
(d) "...cannot help others."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emerson mean in saying that there "will be power not confident but agent" when the soul is present?

2. Who said "To the persevering mortal ... the blessed Immortals are swift"?

3. What does Emerson say he likes "better than any preaching"?

4. What has the world been taught by "this colossal symbol," the world's instructors?

5. Which of the following things does Emerson NOT name in explaining what man is "one with"?

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