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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which virtue is paid to kings, nobles and great proprietors?
(a) Gratitude.
(b) Loyalty.
(c) Homage.
(d) Servitude.

2. What does Emerson say he can anticipate if he knows your sect?
(a) Your heart.
(b) Your thoughts.
(c) Your beliefs.
(d) Your argument.

3. What are boys sure of in Emerson's example of how boys speak their mind?
(a) Their friends.
(b) Their parents.
(c) Themselves.
(d) Their dinner.

4. What does the soul perceive about Truth and Right in the state of having "life in yourself'?
(a) Their calming effect.
(b) Their coexistence with passion.
(c) Their self-existence.
(d) Their self-evidence.

5. What does Emerson say happens to the "voices which we hear in solitude" as we enter into the world?
(a) They become louder and more powerful.
(b) They are affected by others.
(c) They grow faint and inaudible.
(d) They become abstract.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emerson think about being misunderstood?

2. What does Emerson say the world will do to you for nonconformity?

3. What is Emerson describing when he states: "In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity: yet when the devout motions of the soul come ... they should clothe God with shape and color"?

4. Who does Emerson make an example of when talking about living according to his recommendations?

5. What do Alfred, Scanderbeg and Gustavus have in common?

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