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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Paragraph 28-End of Essay.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Emerson recommend we do in our relationships with our family?
(a) Help them build their own self-reliance.
(b) Stop living according to their expectations.
(c) Ask them for help in building our self-reliance.
(d) Accept them for who they are.

2. How does Emerson say a man feels when he has done his best?
(a) Powerful.
(b) Relieved.
(c) Delivered.
(d) Restless.

3. What does Emerson claim "statesmen and philosophers and divines" adore?
(a) Foolish contradiction.
(b) Foolish magnanimity.
(c) Foolish misunderstanding.
(d) Foolish consistency.

4. What does God communicate when he speaks, according to Emerson?
(a) Pure light.
(b) His will.
(c) The truth.
(d) All things.

5. Who does Emerson say has chosen "our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion"?
(a) God.
(b) Society.
(c) Ourselves.
(d) Our families.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Emerson NOT use as an example of self-sufficiency?

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

3. How does Emerson say a man feels when he has said or done something not according to his own will?

4. What is "Himmaleh"?

5. What does genuine action explain?

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