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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What should we come home with after adventures?
(a) Money and wealth.
(b) Wisdom and direction.
(c) Experience and character.
(d) Knowledge and confidence.

2. What did Thoreau imagine doing?
(a) Buying a farm.
(b) Writing a book.
(c) Living off the land.
(d) Building a house.

3. Where did Thoreau consider living before Walden Pond?
(a) Pleasant Meadow.
(b) Shangri-la.
(c) White Pond.
(d) Baker Farm.

4. What do Thoreau's guests often do when they leave after dark?
(a) They get lost.
(b) They ask Thoreau to walk them home.
(c) They go missing.
(d) They spend the night at Walden Pond.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Thoreau begin to live in the woods?

2. "Remember thy Creator in the days of thy..."

3. What attracted Thoreau to the farm?

4. What was the name of the family Thoreau bought a farm from and then returned the ownership to them?

5. What birds does Thoreau hear regularly during the summer at 7:30pm?

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