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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 19-27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Emerson claim that the luster "will be transferred from the actions of kings to those of gentlemen"?
(a) When men begin to realize their own value.
(b) When men act with original views.
(c) When men begin using their reason.
(d) When men begin to trust in themselves.

2. Emerson states that we are "like children" who do what?
(a) "Do not yet understand the truth we witness."
(b) "Postpone that which inevitably must come."
(c) "Are perfect at every moment."
(d) "Repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors."

3. What word does Emerson use to describe people who live their own opinion "in the midst of the crowd"?
(a) Base.
(b) Ingenious.
(c) Great.
(d) Independent.

4. What does Emerson say "...is all that concerns..." him?
(a) My own thought.
(b) My own charities.
(c) What I must do.
(d) What I believe.

5. What does Emerson mean in saying that there "will be power not confident but agent" when the soul is present?
(a) Our power lives.
(b) We do not confide our power to others.
(c) Our power is not prideful.
(d) We do not hope for power, we have power.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Emerson say adults feel in looking into the faces of children?

2. What does Emerson say we can know about justice?

3. What does the soul perceive about Truth and Right in the state of having "life in yourself'?

4. What does Emerson say will explain "the magnetism which all original action exerts"?

5. What "plays us false" in history?

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