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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 truth and health in rough electric shocks.
(c) Impart to them will and self-sufficiency in course precision of reality.
(d) Impart to them strength and good will in simple sweetness.

2. What does Emerson recommend we do in our relationships with our family?
(a) Accept them for who they are.
(b) Ask them for help in building our self-reliance.
(c) Stop living according to their expectations.
(d) Help them build their own self-reliance.

3. Emerson compares society to what in saying "(it) moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not"?
(a) A wave.
(b) A river.
(c) A stream.
(d) An ocean.

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

5. Emerson states that we are "like children" who do what?
(a) "Do not yet understand the truth we witness."
(b) "Repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors."
(c) "Postpone that which inevitably must come."
(d) "Are perfect at every moment."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do young men do if they fail in their first enterprises?

3. Which of the following examples does Emerson NOT name in conjunction with the attribute of the Supreme Cause?

4. According to Emerson, what is the same to both "kingdom and lordship" and "John and Edward"?

5. According to Emerson, when will man finally be happy?

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