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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Manners | Gifts.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the categories Emerson divides the world into?
(a) Truth.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Language.
(d) Commodity.

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

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

4. How are eccentricities dealt with in people who are otherwise fit to enter a mannered upper class?
(a) They are molded into good manners.
(b) They are politely ignored.
(c) They become a matter of amusement.
(d) They become ammunition for expulsion from that upper class.

5. What is the primary tool of the poet?
(a) Truth.
(b) Imagination.
(c) Language.
(d) Experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the ultimate effect of two lovers drawing closer to each other spiritually?

2. What direction is character aligned with, according to Emerson?

3. What seldom-acknowledged factor in coloring people's experience is a large part of everyone's life?

4. Who can too often judge and categorize art and literature, according to "The Poet"?

5. Whom does Emerson especially urge to experience their own heroism?

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