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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which book are most men satisfied by reading or having read to them?
(a) The Farmer's Almanac.
(b) The Bible.
(c) Virgil's Aeneid.
(d) Shakespeare's Sonnets.

2. "Be it life or death, we crave only..."
(a) Love.
(b) Truth.
(c) Reality.
(d) Freedom.

3. "The swiftest traveler is he that goes..."
(a) As the crow flies.
(b) By Horse.
(c) Afoot.
(d) By Train.

4. What book does Thoreau keep on his table throughout the summer?
(a) Homer's Iliad.
(b) Milton's Paradise Lost.
(c) The Bible.
(d) Cervantes' Don Quixote.

5. "The adventurous student will always study..."
(a) History.
(b) Classics.
(c) Latin.
(d) Theology.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Thoreau's net income from his farm?

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

4. When Thoreau began living in the woods, his "house was not finished, but was merely a defense against the..."

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

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