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English III Unit 3 Self-Reliance Biography And Before You Read Questions
Test Description: Use the readings on textbook pages 216-217 AND 224 to answer the questions below.
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Emerson profoundly influenced the poet Walt Whitman's career.
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False
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True
2) Emerson believed a person could access higher laws indirectly through books and teachings of the past rather than directly through nature.
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False
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True
3) Emerson appealed mainly to intellectuals because of his reputation for being hard to understand.
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True
4) Emerson can best be characterized as a poet whose best work was not always in verse.
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False
5) Emerson's family was cultured but poor.
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6) Emerson's Aunt Mary Moody as a strict Unitarian who emphasized self-sacrifice and whose enormous energy drove the Emerson and his brothers to achievement.
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True
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7) Emerson willingly obeyed with the expectations for his life fully trusting in those advising him.
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8) Emerson enjoyed a long, happy marriage to his first love Ellen Tucker.
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9) Emerson denied the importance of the past.
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10) Emerson believed that individual souls were part of the Over-Soul.
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11) Emerson rejected institutional religion in favor of a personal relation with God.
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True
12) Harvard has always been very welcoming of Emerson's teachings.
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True
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13) Emerson made Concord popular.
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14) Emerson's positive outlook on life was dealt a severe blow when his son died.
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15) Emerson spent his entire life effectively speaking in front of the public.
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16) In the early years of America's history the greatest source of pride was the high value the group placed on individual liberty.
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17) Emerson's essay Self-Reliance encourages individualism.
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18) A figure of speech is a word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and that is not meant to be taken literally.
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True
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