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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the necessities of life?
(a) Love, happiness, family, and religion.
(b) Food, shelter, clothing, and fuel.
(c) Food, shelter, clothing, and sunlight.
(d) Food, shelter, land, and freedom.

2. How does Thoreau often find his way home in the dark?
(a) He uses a torch.
(b) He looks up at the opening between the trees above the path.
(c) He ties a rope along the path.
(d) He uses a walking stick.

3. What happened to Walden Pond between his childhood and the time he moved there?
(a) The fish were depopulated.
(b) The spring dried up.
(c) A family of muskrats moved in.
(d) The trees on the shores were cut down.

4. What was Thoreau doing in the village when he was arrested?
(a) Buying a newspaper.
(b) Picking up a shoe from the cobbler's.
(c) Selling beans.
(d) Having a drink at the bar-room.

5. What attracted Thoreau to the farm?
(a) The house.
(b) Its crop production.
(c) Its remoteness.
(d) The landscape.

6. Thoreau calls the train an "iron..."
(a) Horse.
(b) Monstrosity.
(c) Dragon.
(d) Beast.

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

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

9. What does Thoreau state men have lost when planting crops?
(a) Reverence.
(b) Awareness.
(c) Money.
(d) Knowledge.

10. What gets struck by lighting during a heavy thunder-shower?
(a) The bean field.
(b) A pine tree.
(c) Walden Pond.
(d) Thoreau's shelter.

11. Thoreau speaks of visitors from what charitable institution?
(a) The almshouse.
(b) The Salvation Army.
(c) The hospital.
(d) The church.

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

13. Of what do the smells from the train remind Thoreau?
(a) His childhood.
(b) Other parts of the world.
(c) Big city life.
(d) The destruction of nature.

14. For what does Thoreau feel sympathy?
(a) Prowling animals.
(b) Withering flowers.
(c) Tree leaves.
(d) Singing birds.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What fruit never reaches Boston?

2. Thoreau hates the name of what local pond ?

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

4. Thoreau states his residence at Walden was more favorable to thought and serious reading than what institution?

5. How long does Thoreau live at Walden Pond?

(see the answer keys)

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