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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Emerson claim power ceases?
(a) When we fail to use it.
(b) As soon as one gives power to others.
(c) When life has ceased.
(d) As soon as one rests.

2. What is the attribute of the Supreme Cause according to Emerson?
(a) Self-reliance.
(b) Self-existence.
(c) Absolute truth.
(d) Absolute justice.

3. What do Alfred, Scanderbeg and Gustavus have in common?
(a) They all are dukes.
(b) They all lead their people to great riches.
(c) They all protect their kingdoms against powerful enemies.
(d) They all are kings.

4. 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 stream.
(c) A river.
(d) An ocean.

5. Which virtue is paid to kings, nobles and great proprietors?
(a) Loyalty.
(b) Homage.
(c) Gratitude.
(d) Servitude.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emerson say conspires against "the sanity and authority of the soul"?

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

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

4. How does Emerson say a cultivated man feels about his property?

5. How does Emerson measure the degree to which a thing is real?

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