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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) The pure love of God.
(d) Vision and understanding.

2. Emerson says we should do what instead of sitting down to "cry for company" with others?
(a) Impart to them friendship and companionship in uncomplicated sympathy.
(b) Impart to them strength and good will in simple sweetness.
(c) Impart to them truth and health in rough electric shocks.
(d) Impart to them will and self-sufficiency in course precision of reality.

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

4. How does Emerson measure the degree to which a thing is real?
(a) By the measure of virtue it contains.
(b) By the degree of power it exhibits.
(c) By the degree of trust it has in the Supreme Cause.
(d) By the measure of life it contains within it.

5. What do our first journeys reveal?
(a) The indifference of places.
(b) A fool's paradise.
(c) The wonders of the world.
(d) The ruins of ruins.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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"?

3. Which faith does Emerson NOT mention as an example of "creeds and churches"?

4. What does Emerson claim we have become, in stating that man will see that we need his ethics?

5. What does Emerson claim has happened to "the highest truth on this subject" in referencing the point of the essay overall?

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