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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 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"?
(a) We can never truly know what God is like.
(b) You must be wary of religious emotion.
(c) Your own ideas of God are unimportant.
(d) It is acceptable to change one's mind.

2. What does Emerson say he has difficulty detecting when people "maintain a dead church"?
(a) The precise man one is.
(b) The precise source of one's conviction.
(c) The precise tone of one's character.
(d) The precise nature of one's beliefs.

3. What does conformity explain?
(a) One's fear.
(b) Itself.
(c) Everything.
(d) Nothing.

4. What does Emerson say tendency does to variety of actions?
(a) Tendency makes good any vice in a variety of actions.
(b) Tendency unites all actions.
(c) Tendency kills the distinctness of variety.
(d) Tendency steers the course of a variety of actions.

5. What does Emerson say members are trying to secure in his comparison to joint-stock companies?
(a) Their profits.
(b) Their bread.
(c) Their jobs.
(d) Their reputations.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which artist does Emerson say "will create a house in which all these will find themselves fitted"?

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

3. What does Emerson recommend we do in our relationships with our family?

4. What word does Emerson use to describe people who live their own opinion "in the midst of the crowd"?

5. Emerson laments that strong intellects "dare not yet hear God himself, unless he speak the phraseology of..." whom?

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