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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what does Thoreau feel sympathy?
(a) Prowling animals.
(b) Singing birds.
(c) Tree leaves.
(d) Withering flowers.

2. What happened to a settler's family in Sutton in 1717?
(a) They were forced off their land by a flood.
(b) Their cottage was completely buried in snow.
(c) They couldn't pay their taxes and were forced to move.
(d) Their house burned down.

3. What gets struck by lighting during a heavy thunder-shower?
(a) Walden Pond.
(b) The bean field.
(c) Thoreau's shelter.
(d) A pine tree.

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

5. "Nature has no human inhabitant who..."
(a) Treats her well.
(b) Appreciates her.
(c) Loves her.
(d) Respects her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fruit never reaches Boston?

2. According to legend, after whom was Walden Pond named?

3. What happened to Walden Pond between his childhood and the time he moved there?

4. What winter bird does Thoreau amuse himself by watching?

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

(see the answer key)

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