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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where have loons been caught with fishing hooks, eighty feet below the water's surface?
(a) Quebec.
(b) Maine.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) New York.

2. What kind of tree is two feet in diameter?
(a) Black birch.
(b) Green oak.
(c) Maple.
(d) Yellow ash.

3. What plant grows at the edge of the path near the end of May?
(a) The sand cherry.
(b) Johnswort.
(c) Goldenrod.
(d) Sumach.

4. What animal does Thoreau want to eat when it crosses his path?
(a) A squirrel.
(b) A rabbit.
(c) A duck.
(d) A woodchuck.

5. What do people come from town to take from Walden Pond?
(a) Water.
(b) Aquatic plants.
(c) Ice.
(d) Fish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thoreau frequently do on warm evenings?

2. What is the name of the Plymouth Colony governor who wasn't fed by the king of the tribe he visited?

3. What creatures do Thoreau find battling in the wood-pile?

4. "As long as possible live free and..."

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

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