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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Spiritual Laws | Love.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to "An Address", what subverts the truly moral character of man?
(a) Industry.
(b) Christianity.
(c) European academia.
(d) American politics.

2. How does the love between a man and woman usually begin?
(a) Quietly, like a summer breeze.
(b) In hot-blooded youth.
(c) With fire and passion.
(d) With shy flirtations.

3. Each person has his or her own vocation that can be discovered by ______.
(a) The direction of the mind.
(b) The person's passions.
(c) Cultural instruction.
(d) Psychological evaluation.

4. At what college did Emerson give "The American Scholar" as an address?
(a) New York University.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Harvard.

5. Who is the author of "Selected Writings"?
(a) Plato.
(b) Napoleon.
(c) Henry David Thoreau.
(d) Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Emerson attribute the term "transcendentalism"?

2. What example does Emerson use in "Spiritual Laws" to demonstrate the effects of force-feeding children questions and answers of little interest?

3. According to Emerson, it is the challenge of American scholars to foster and support the development of truly American ______ and ______.

4. Where did Emerson deliver "The Lord's Supper" as a sermon?

5. According to "Compensation", which of the following is NOT one of the realms mentioned that achieves a balance between positive and negative forces?

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