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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What item does Thoreau discover missing?
(a) A volume of Homer.
(b) His hoe.
(c) His fountain pen.
(d) His flint.

3. Who is never alone?
(a) An angel.
(b) A writer.
(c) The devil.
(d) A hermit.

4. How long does Thoreau live at Walden Pond?
(a) Six months.
(b) One year.
(c) Three years and six months.
(d) Two years and two months.

5. What bird does Thoreau contemplate keeping merely for his music?
(a) A crow.
(b) A rooster.
(c) A canary.
(d) A screech owl.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animals were inside the shelter with the Field family?

2. What color is the ice from Walden Pond?

3. "I go and come with a strange... in Nature."

4. What did Thoreau do early in the morning?

5. Thoreau states that fewer people came to see him at Walden Pond on...

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