Question 15 • *KCPS English Language Arts 11 (2027)
Read the excerpt from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s "Self-Reliance." These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Which transcendental belief does this excerpt best illustrate?
Answer
A
Societal rules are necessary to maintain order among the people.
B
Societal rules are less important than an individual’s conscience.