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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Emerson say he has difficulty detecting when people "maintain a dead church"?
2. What does Emerson say the world will do to you for nonconformity?
3. Which words does Emerson want to have "gazetted and ridiculous henceforward"?
4. Emerson says boys try and sentence people and facts based on what?
5. Where does Emerson say it is easy to live after the world's opinion?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain Emerson's theory on the importance of kings for the world as stated in paragraph 20.
2. In paragraph 33, Emerson says, "We are become timorous, desponding whimperers." Explain what he means by this.
3. Why does Emerson say in paragraph 26 that the world hates the fact that the soul becomes?
4. In paragraph 10, Emerson gives a long account of exactly why he objects to conformity. His objection relates to personal "force" and the perception of character. Can you explain this objection?
5. What does Emerson mean in saying, "Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare. Do that which is assigned to you."?
6. How does Emerson feel about travel? Explain why.
7. Explain Emerson's problem with "the phraseology of some old mouldered nation in another country" as detailed in paragraph 22.
8. What does Emerson mean when he states in paragraph 15: "No man can violate his nature. All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being."?
9. Explain the opening quote to Emerson's essay, "Ne te quaesiveris extra" and why he uses it.
10. What does Emerson say about involuntary perception (paragraph 21)?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What does Emerson think of professional setbacks? Describe his point of view and state whether you think this point of view is practicable in real life. Defend your opinion.
Essay Topic 2
What does Emerson say the world has learned from its kings? Describe Emerson's view and give your own opinion on the subject.
Essay Topic 3
In paragraph 15, Emerson writes: "Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment." Explain this idea, clarifying Emerson's views on overt actions and describing what his figurative language at the end of the sentence means.
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