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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 1-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Emerson say is a conspiracy against manhood?
(a) Society.
(b) The world.
(c) Nature.
(d) Joint-stock companies.

2. What does Emerson suggest about philanthropy?
(a) Philanthropy is our obligation to poor men.
(b) Philanthropy is the highest good.
(c) Philanthropy can be malice and vanity in disguise.
(d) It is our right to be philanthropic.

3. What does Emerson say about the occurrence of virtues?
(a) They are the exception rather than the rule.
(b) Society helps sustain virtue.
(c) Men are virtuous by nature.
(d) Virtue comes through action.


4. What reason does Emerson give for good deeds?
(a) Some men do good deeds because it is their intrinsic duty.
(b) Some men do good deeds as a spectacle for others.
(c) Some men do good deeds to quiet their conscience.
(d) Some men do good deeds when they are of decent character.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Emerson say a man feels when he has done his best?

2. What does Emerson insist a man must be in order to really be a man?

3. Emerson says boys try and sentence people and facts based on what?

4. To which "iron string" does Emerson say every heart vibrates?

5. What does Emerson wish adults could return to?

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