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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it that man no longer dares to say, according to Emerson?
(a) "I think" and "I am."
(b) "I want" and "I will."
(c) "I can" and "I believe."
(d) "I won't" and "I disagree."

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"?
(a) Modes of living.
(b) Education.
(c) Property.
(d) Prayer.

3. What does Emerson say we can know about justice?
(a) From whence it comes.
(b) Its beauty.
(c) Its presence and its absence.
(d) The soul that caused it.

4. What does Emerson say he likes "better than any preaching"?
(a) The look of a full congregation.
(b) The silent church before the service begins.
(c) The quiet of a sanctuary.
(d) The willingness to take action.

5. What does Emerson claim has happened to "the highest truth on this subject" in referencing the point of the essay overall?
(a) It cannot be understood.
(b) It remains unsaid.
(c) It cannot prevail.
(d) It shall remain a mystery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emerson say goes with him everywhere he goes?

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

3. In writing about strength, to whom does Emerson compare the American?

4. 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?

5. Emerson mentions something personal to him that makes "no reference" to the past and simply exists with God today. What is it?

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