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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Thoreau sometimes hear on Sundays?
(a) Church bells.
(b) Organ music.
(c) Choirs singing.
(d) Families walking in the forest.

2. Which book are most men satisfied by reading or having read to them?
(a) The Bible.
(b) Virgil's Aeneid.
(c) Shakespeare's Sonnets.
(d) The Farmer's Almanac.

3. What is Thoreau's net income from his farm?
(a) $21.34.
(b) $12.46.
(c) $5.93.
(d) $8.71.

4. Of what do the smells from the train remind Thoreau?
(a) Other parts of the world.
(b) His childhood.
(c) The destruction of nature.
(d) Big city life.

5. "I have never found the companion that was so companionable as..."
(a) Myself.
(b) A book.
(c) Solitude.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. Some of Thoreau's pleasantest hours are spent during this kind of weather:

2. How long does Thoreau live at Walden Pond?

3. What vegetable does Thoreau plant on most of his 2 1/2 acres?

4. What animal does Thoreau kill and eat after it ravages his bean-field?

5. "Be it life or death, we crave only..."

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