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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Thoreau doing in the village when he was arrested?
(a) Picking up a shoe from the cobbler's.
(b) Buying a newspaper.
(c) Having a drink at the bar-room.
(d) Selling beans.

2. What does Thoreau hope to avoid by harvesting early?
(a) Frost.
(b) Rain.
(c) Rot.
(d) Loss to animals.

3. What kind of bird does an old man tell Thoreau used to frequent the pond?
(a) Eagle.
(b) Crane.
(c) Owl.
(d) Crow.

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

5. Who is never alone?
(a) A writer.
(b) A hermit.
(c) The devil.
(d) An angel.

6. What animal's sound ushers in the night?
(a) The hawk's scream.
(b) The bullfrog's trump.
(c) The coyote's yelp.
(d) The whip-poor-will's cry.

7. What birds does Thoreau hear regularly during the summer at 7:30pm?
(a) Hawks.
(b) Nightingales.
(c) Whip-poor-wills.
(d) Doves.

8. "In dealing with truth we are..."
(a) Hesitant.
(b) Noble.
(c) Fearful.
(d) Immortal.

9. What kind of fish does Thoreau try to catch in the winter?
(a) Perch.
(b) Trout.
(c) Pickerel.
(d) Salmon.

10. What kind of fish is most abundant in Walden Pond?
(a) Perch.
(b) Pickerel.
(c) Trout.
(d) Salmon.

11. What happened to Walden Pond between his childhood and the time he moved there?
(a) The trees on the shores were cut down.
(b) The fish were depopulated.
(c) The spring dried up.
(d) A family of muskrats moved in.

12. "We are underbred and low-lived and..."
(a) Stupid.
(b) Illiterate.
(c) Hardworking.
(d) Ignorant.

13. How does Thoreau often find his way home in the dark?
(a) He uses a torch.
(b) He uses a walking stick.
(c) He ties a rope along the path.
(d) He looks up at the opening between the trees above the path.

14. Thoreau calls the train an "iron..."
(a) Dragon.
(b) Beast.
(c) Horse.
(d) Monstrosity.

15. For what purpose does Thoreau believe most men have learned to read?
(a) Education.
(b) Convenience.
(c) Pleasure.
(d) Vanity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thoreau uncover as he hoes the bean-field?

2. "Nature has no human inhabitant who..."

3. How often does Thoreau go to the village?

4. What does Thoreau wage a war with in his bean-field?

5. How much is Thoreau's profit from the bean-field?

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