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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Emancipation in the British West Indies.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How will society become better, according to Emerson?
(a) By giving the government control over personal freedoms.
(b) With grass-roots governments.
(c) With less government.
(d) With more government.

2. Who can too often judge and categorize art and literature, according to "The Poet"?
(a) Poets.
(b) Umpires of taste.
(c) Philosophers.
(d) Censors of thought.

3. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the best gift, according to "Gifts"?
(a) Something that acknowledges an essential truth about the receiver.
(b) Something that acknowledges an essential truth about the giver.
(c) Something that reflects the giver.
(d) Something that comes directly from the giver.

4. What is the only permanent thing in the universe, according to Emerson?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Scientific thought.
(c) Impermanence.
(d) God.

5. What right of individuals has never been tried as the foundation of a state?
(a) Trust.
(b) Employment.
(c) Reverence.
(d) Love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What view does Emerson take of human love in "Love"?

2. What kind of nature does Emerson say the farmer has?

3. What word or phrase means a belief that God's grace allows an individual to ignore all laws, divine and terrestrial?

4. What is the function of art, according to Emerson?

5. What philosopher did Emerson say was the beginning and end of all philosophy?

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