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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Thoreau uncover as he hoes the bean-field?
(a) Buried treasure.
(b) Native artifacts.
(c) Tree stumps.
(d) The remains of animals.

2. What does Thoreau hear from town in his bean-field on gala days?
(a) Military gunfire.
(b) A brass band.
(c) The train whistle.
(d) Church bells.

3. Where does Thoreau believe intellectual societies are confined?
(a) Paris and Oxford.
(b) Europe.
(c) New York.
(d) Literary circles.

4. How far was Thoreau's house from Concord?
(a) 5 miles.
(b) 1 1/2 miles.
(c) 3 miles.
(d) 2 1/2 miles.

5. "Nature has no human inhabitant who..."
(a) Appreciates her.
(b) Treats her well.
(c) Respects her.
(d) Loves her.

6. What kind of bird does an old man tell Thoreau used to frequent the pond?
(a) Owl.
(b) Crane.
(c) Eagle.
(d) Crow.

7. "The true husbandman will cease from..."
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Fear.
(c) Idleness.
(d) Toil.

8. "The village appeared to me a great..."
(a) Family.
(b) News room.
(c) Anthill.
(d) Beehive.

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

10. How long does Thoreau stay in jail?
(a) One week.
(b) A month.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) One day.

11. What American institution does Thoreau state he could do without?
(a) The Post Office.
(b) The Railway.
(c) The Church.
(d) The Government.

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

13. What vegetable does Thoreau plant on most of his 2 1/2 acres?
(a) Corn.
(b) Turnips.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Beans.

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

15. What birds does Thoreau hear regularly during the summer at 7:30pm?
(a) Whip-poor-wills.
(b) Doves.
(c) Nightingales.
(d) Hawks.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Walden is a perfect forest mirror" in which season?

2. For what do Thoreau's visitors often ask him?

3. "I am convinced, that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, ... would be unknown."

4. "The swiftest traveler is he that goes..."

5. Who exerted an influence on mankind more than kings and emperors?

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