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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Abraham Lincoln.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Emerson see evidence of everywhere he looks in society?
(a) Loyalty to European traditions.
(b) Lack of desire for independence.
(c) Defiant reformist mentality.
(d) Decadence.

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

3. What is the first poem in the collection "Poetry"?
(a) "Lines to Ellen".
(b) "The Problem".
(c) "Threnody".
(d) "Goodbye".

4. What state's citizens did Daniel Webster betray?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Maine.

5. What kind of excellence does the farmer have, according to Emerson?
(a) Natural.
(b) Intellectual.
(c) Physical.
(d) Constitutional.

Short Answer Questions

1. What form does "Emancipation in the British West Indies" take?

2. What form does "John Brown" take?

3. How will society become better, according to Emerson?

4. Which of the following is NOT a way men of genius maintain their distance from others?

5. What is bereft of models of heroism, according to Emerson's "Heroism"?

(see the answer key)

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