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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What animals were inside the shelter with the Field family?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Chickens.
(c) Cows.
(d) Cats.

2. "Remember thy Creator in the days of thy..."
(a) Despair.
(b) Hardship.
(c) Bounty.
(d) Youth.

3. What writer does the French Canadian Woodsman love?
(a) Milton.
(b) Aesop.
(c) Homer.
(d) Virgil.

4. What does Thoreau say he chanced upon one day?
(a) The end of a rainbow.
(b) A family of deer.
(c) An eclipse.
(d) Buried treasure.

5. When Thoreau began living in the woods, his "house was not finished, but was merely a defense against the..."
(a) Rain.
(b) Animals.
(c) Wind.
(d) Sun.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Thoreau reject the suggestion of owning a visitor's book?

2. What did Thoreau do during his first summer at Walden Pond?

3. According to tales, who planted the beech grove?

4. What does Thoreau hope will happen if John Field reads his book?

5. What animals ate out of the hands of the woodsman?

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