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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Emerson wish adults could return to?
(a) Their youth.
(b) Their true state.
(c) Their neutrality.
(d) Their carelessness.

2. Emerson says that another person of greater obedience can master him, although he does not do what?
(a) Raise his finger.
(b) Speak a single word.
(c) Appeal to armies.
(d) Openly challenge him.

3. Why does Emerson say a character is "like an acrostic"?
(a) Human character is puzzling.
(b) Trying to understand one's character can be fun.
(c) Human character is ever-changing.
(d) No matter how you read it, it always spells the same thing.

4. What does Emerson say we can know about justice?
(a) From whence it comes.
(b) The soul that caused it.
(c) Its presence and its absence.
(d) Its beauty.

5. What does Emerson say the world will do to you for nonconformity?
(a) Lash you with its criticism.
(b) Punish you for your folly.
(c) Scourge you for your witlessness.
(d) Whip you with its displeasure.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following did Emerson NOT say by name is misunderstood?

2. What "plays us false" in history?

3. What does Emerson mean in saying that there "will be power not confident but agent" when the soul is present?

4. What does Emerson say conformity does in his objection to it?

5. What does Emerson say tendency does to variety of actions?

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