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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. At what have men looked "so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned, and civil institutions as guards"?
(a) Institutions.
(b) Things.
(c) Themselves.
(d) The cross.

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 "in the hand of the harlot."
(d) Leaves it "under the cloak of night."

3. What is Emerson suggesting with his mention of Joseph and his coat?
(a) That we abandon previous theories.
(b) That we flee from contradiction.
(c) That we abandon the need to conform.
(d) That we flee from God and religion.

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

5. What does Emerson NOT say is a good reason to travel?
(a) For study.
(b) To be amused.
(c) So that man becomes domesticated.
(d) For the purpose of art.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emerson claim is the virtue "in most request"?

2. What does Emerson say happens to the "voices which we hear in solitude" as we enter into the world?

3. What is a hobgoblin?

4. What does Emerson say a man should learn to detect and watch?

5. Emerson explains in his essay exactly what it is that "scares us from self-trust." What is it?

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