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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 about the occurrence of virtues?
(a) Virtue comes through action.

(b) Society helps sustain virtue.
(c) They are the exception rather than the rule.
(d) Men are virtuous by nature.

2. Emerson says boys try and sentence people and facts based on what?
(a) Their intuition.
(b) Their merits.
(c) Their characters.
(d) Their own mind.

3. What does Emerson say will happen if one does not put his heart into his work?
(a) His genius will desert him.
(b) His family will desert him.
(c) His friends will desert him.
(d) God will desert him.

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

5. What does "Ne te quaesiveris extra" mean?
(a) Every man should do extra work.
(b) Do not look outside yourself.
(c) Do not reach outside yourself.
(d) Man is his own star.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What "...may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted..."?

3. What does Emerson say causes a man to come to the conviction that "...envy is ignorance"?

4. Who wrote the verses that Emerson mentions at the beginning of the first paragraph?

5. What is Emerson referring to when he writes: "...seated at their heart, working through their hands..." in his description of those living according to his recommendations?

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