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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Emerson NOT say is a good reason to travel?
(a) For the purpose of art.
(b) So that man becomes domesticated.
(c) For study.
(d) To be amused.

2. 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 trust it has in the Supreme Cause.
(c) By the degree of power it exhibits.
(d) By the measure of life it contains within it.

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

4. What does Emerson say goes with him everywhere he goes?
(a) His guilt.
(b) His giant.
(c) His suggestions.
(d) His trunk.

5. What is a hieroglyphic as referred to in talking about virtue paid to kings, nobles and great proprietors?
(a) A monument.
(b) An Egyptian pictogram.
(c) A symbol.
(d) A puzzle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Emerson explains what underlies the present and life and death. What is it?

2. Emerson compares society to what in saying "(it) moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not"?

3. Emerson says we should do what instead of sitting down to "cry for company" with others?

4. Which system does Emerson accuse of fostering restlessness?

5. What does Emerson claim society never does?

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