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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Emerson announces "The delegation from Essex! The Democrats from New Hampshire!" in an attempt to show that men feel strong under which circumstances?
(a) In politics.
(b) In organizations.
(c) In offices.
(d) In numbers.

2. What does Emerson say you can "present every moment"?
(a) Yourself.
(b) Your own gift.
(c) Your will.
(d) Your art.

3. What "plays us false" in history?
(a) Our memories.
(b) Our kings.
(c) Our imaginations.
(d) Our ceremonies.

4. What is a hieroglyphic as referred to in talking about virtue paid to kings, nobles and great proprietors?
(a) An Egyptian pictogram.
(b) A symbol.
(c) A puzzle.
(d) A monument.

5. When does Emerson claim power ceases?
(a) When life has ceased.
(b) When we fail to use it.
(c) As soon as one rests.
(d) As soon as one gives power to others.

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

7. What does Emerson say conspires against "the sanity and authority of the soul"?
(a) Worship.
(b) Our mind.
(c) Religion.
(d) Time.

8. Emerson claims that a man or company of men can overpower "all cities, nations, kings, rich men, poets" when he or they posses which characteristic?
(a) Being of great virtue.
(b) Being fully honest.
(c) Being open to principles.
(d) Being entirely self-reliant.

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

10. What does Emerson mean in saying that there "will be power not confident but agent" when the soul is present?
(a) Our power lives.
(b) We do not hope for power, we have power.
(c) We do not confide our power to others.
(d) Our power is not prideful.

11. Emerson claims that there are "two confessionals, in one or the other of which we must be shriven." What are the confessionals he is referring to?
(a) God and the self.
(b) Others and the self.
(c) God and others.
(d) God and the Church.

12. Emerson states that we are "like children" who do what?
(a) "Are perfect at every moment."
(b) "Repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors."
(c) "Postpone that which inevitably must come."
(d) "Do not yet understand the truth we witness."

13. How does Emerson describe the relationship between the soul and the "divine spirit"?
(a) Harmonious.
(b) Pure.
(c) Strained.
(d) Loving.

14. In the state of having "life in yourself" that Emerson describes, what does he claim is of no account?
(a) Vast spaces of nature and long intervals of time.
(b) This world's many riches.
(c) A man's own personal interest.
(d) The will and wanting of others.

15. What does Emerson say one shouldn't travel in hope of?
(a) "Escaping the difficult decisions ahead."
(b) "Leaving all the past behind."
(c) "Finding somewhat greater than [one] knows."
(d) "Finding Thebes and Palmyra."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who instructed the world, according to Emerson?

2. How does Emerson claim we give men the power to annoy us?

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

4. "The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost" what?

5. What is a man worth that "tries all the professions"?

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