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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following things does Emerson NOT name in explaining what man is "one with"?
(a) Space.
(b) Man.
(c) The animals.
(d) Light.

4. What does Emerson say goes with him everywhere he goes?
(a) His guilt.
(b) His giant.
(c) His trunk.
(d) His suggestions.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When does Emerson claim power ceases?

3. Who does Emerson say has chosen "our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion"?

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

5. What does Emerson call "primary wisdom"?

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