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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Brown hoping to free with his attack?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Religious activists.
(c) The people.
(d) Slaves.

2. Why was Thoreau able to walk freely wherever he pleased?
(a) The laws did not prohibit trespassing at the time.
(b) He owned the woods.
(c) The land was not privately owned.
(d) He knew and befriended all the land owners.

3. What did Thoreau say we should let our thoughts do?
(a) Take hold.
(b) Become.
(c) Grow.
(d) Wander.

4. What did Thoreau say was the natural state of the Earth?
(a) Wildness.
(b) Hierarchical.
(c) Order.
(d) Chaotic.

5. What direction did Thoreau prefer to walk in?
(a) West.
(b) East.
(c) South.
(d) North.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Thoreau praise most about Brown?

2. What did Thoreau say Nature would reveal to man?

3. Who did Thoreau invite to be a citizen with him?

4. How did Brown come to have a trial?

5. How many men followed Brown in his attack?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Thoreau show his ideal relationship between man and nature?

2. What did Thoreau say Nature would do for a walker?

3. Who did Thoreau compare Brown to in 'A Plea for Captain John Brown' and why?

4. What animal did Thoreau compare himself to when walking, and why?

5. Why did Thoreau think Massachusetts was hypocritical?

6. What did Thoreau say about the natural state of the world?

7. What did Thoreau say was the main difference between Brown and the man he compared Brown to?

8. What did Thoreau say about society's idea of improvement?

9. What did Thoreau say about American's gravitating toward the West?

10. What did Thoreau say men should try to walk unencumbered by?

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