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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Emerson says we should do what instead of sitting down to "cry for company" with others?
(a) Impart to them strength and good will in simple sweetness.
(b) Impart to them truth and health in rough electric shocks.
(c) Impart to them friendship and companionship in uncomplicated sympathy.
(d) Impart to them will and self-sufficiency in course precision of reality.

2. 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) A man's own personal interest.
(c) The will and wanting of others.
(d) This world's many riches.

3. Who said "To the persevering mortal ... the blessed Immortals are swift"?
(a) Caliph Ali.
(b) Zoroaster.
(c) Fletcher.
(d) Bonduca.

4. Emerson laments that strong intellects "dare not yet hear God himself, unless he speak the phraseology of..." whom?
(a) Luther, or Milton or Plato.
(b) Society at large.
(c) Lukas, or Daniel or Isaiah.
(d) David, or Jeremiah or Paul.

5. What is antinomianism ("The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is ... mere antinomianism")?
(a) Nihilism.
(b) Rejection of society.
(c) Rejection of manners.
(d) Spite.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which..."?

2. According to Emerson, when will man finally be happy?

3. Who does Emerson say has chosen "our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion"?

4. According to Emerson, what is the same to both "kingdom and lordship" and "John and Edward"?

5. What is it that man no longer dares to say, according to Emerson?

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