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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Nominalist and Realist.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of friendship does Emerson prefer?
(a) A long-distance friendship.
(b) A rough kind of friendship.
(c) An intellectual friendship.
(d) A friendship that is "evenly matched."

3. What happens when you greatly admire or revere someone?
(a) You raise them to perfection in your mind.
(b) You emulate them.
(c) You become jealous of them.
(d) You resent them.

4. What example does Emerson use in "Spiritual Laws" to demonstrate the effects of force-feeding children questions and answers of little interest?
(a) Public school.
(b) Discipline at home.
(c) Sunday school.
(d) Patriotism.

5. According to Emerson's "The Over-Soul", which of the following is NOT the essence of the over-soul?
(a) Intellectual discussion.
(b) Human consciousness.
(c) Spirituality.
(d) An indwelling sense of God.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what college did Emerson give "The American Scholar" as an address?

2. How are eccentricities dealt with in people who are otherwise fit to enter a mannered upper class?

3. How was "The Transcendentalist" originally delivered?

4. According to "An Address", what subverts the truly moral character of man?

5. What is the direction of nature and human consciousness?

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