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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraphs 9-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Emerson say a man should learn to detect and watch?
(a) His inner light.
(b) The actions of others.
(c) His own thoughts.
(d) His true character.

2. What does Emerson say Joseph does with his coat?
(a) Leaves it behind "like an empty husk."
(b) Leaves it "among the darkest enemy."
(c) Leaves it "under the cloak of night."
(d) Leaves it "in the hand of the harlot."

3. What does Emerson say no man can violate?
(a) The laws of God.
(b) The laws of nature.
(c) His nature.
(d) The laws of society.

4. What does Emerson claim men believe about how they communicate their character?
(a) They believe their virtue and vice emit a breath every moment.
(b) They believe they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions.
(c) They believe they can communicate their virtue without their vice.
(d) They believe that communicating virtuous actions makes up for their vice.

5. What is it that we put on in company according to Emerson?
(a) A forced smile.
(b) A feigned laugh.
(c) A new set of opinions.
(d) Our best dress.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emerson say "...is all that concerns..." him?

2. What does "Ne te quaesiveris extra" mean?

3. What does Emerson say is most important about verses like the ones he mentions at the beginning of the first paragraph?

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

5. 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"?

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