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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Emerson say the civilized man no longer know thanks to the Greenwich nautical almanac he has?
(a) The countries of the world.
(b) The stars in the sky.
(c) The cardinal directions.
(d) The hours of the tides.

2. Which system does Emerson accuse of fostering restlessness?
(a) Our system of religion.
(b) Our system of travel.
(c) Our system of politics.
(d) Our system of education.

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

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

5. What is the definition of "docility" as used by Emerson ("our docility to our own law")?
(a) Strength.
(b) Passivity.
(c) Submissiveness.
(d) Weakness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emerson say you can "present every moment"?

2. What does Emerson call history a parable of?

3. "Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which..."?

4. What do Alfred, Scanderbeg and Gustavus have in common?

5. How does Emerson describe the relationship between the soul and the "divine spirit"?

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