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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 Church.
(b) God and others.
(c) God and the self.
(d) Others and the self.

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

4. Which of the following does Emerson NOT use as an example of self-sufficiency?
(a) The creation of a planet.
(b) A child growing up to be a man.
(c) A rose blooming after a storm.
(d) A tree recovering from a storm.

5. What does Emerson mean in saying that there "will be power not confident but agent" when the soul is present?
(a) We do not hope for power, we have power.
(b) Our power lives.
(c) Our power is not prideful.
(d) We do not confide our power to others.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does God communicate when he speaks, according to Emerson?

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

3. What is it that man no longer dares to say, according to Emerson?

4. What is the attribute of the Supreme Cause according to Emerson?

5. Emerson states, "The way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new." What does he mean?

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