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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Emerson say conspires against "the sanity and authority of the soul"?
(a) Our mind.
(b) Worship.
(c) Time.
(d) Religion.

2. 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.

3. What does God communicate when he speaks, according to Emerson?
(a) His will.
(b) The truth.
(c) All things.
(d) Pure light.

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

5. Emerson claims that there are "two confessionals, in one or the other of which we must be shriven." What are the confessionals he is referring to?
(a) God and the self.
(b) God and others.
(c) God and the Church.
(d) Others and the self.

6. What is antinomianism ("The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is ... mere antinomianism")?
(a) Rejection of society.
(b) Nihilism.
(c) Spite.
(d) Rejection of manners.

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

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

9. In the state of having "life in yourself" that Emerson describes, what does he claim is of no account?
(a) The will and wanting of others.
(b) This world's many riches.
(c) A man's own personal interest.
(d) Vast spaces of nature and long intervals of time.

10. What does Emerson say you can "present every moment"?
(a) Your will.
(b) Your art.
(c) Your own gift.
(d) Yourself.

11. What does Emerson claim must we do in order to see truly?
(a) Be truly.
(b) Live truly.
(c) Worship truly.
(d) Work truly.

12. What does Emerson NOT say is a good reason to travel?
(a) For the purpose of art.
(b) For study.
(c) So that man becomes domesticated.
(d) To be amused.

13. According to Emerson, Galileo did more with what than anyone since?
(a) A thermometer.
(b) An opera-glass.
(c) A telescope.
(d) A map of the stars.

14. In writing about strength, to whom does Emerson compare the American?
(a) The Ecuadorian.
(b) The Algerian.
(c) The New Zealander.
(d) The Viking.

15. Who said "To the persevering mortal ... the blessed Immortals are swift"?
(a) Zoroaster.
(b) Fletcher.
(c) Caliph Ali.
(d) Bonduca.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Emerson NOT list in the aspects of life in which "It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution"?

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

3. What does the soul perceive about Truth and Right in the state of having "life in yourself'?

4. Emerson compares society to what in saying "(it) moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not"?

5. In which hours does Emerson say "We feel that duty is our place"?

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