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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Thoreau's net income from his farm?
(a) $12.46.
(b) $5.93.
(c) $8.71.
(d) $21.34.

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

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

5. What does Thoreau usually do after hoeing?
(a) Swims in the pond.
(b) Goes for a walk.
(c) Rests in the shade.
(d) Talks to his neighbor.

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

7. What does Thoreau follow all the way into town?
(a) Road signs.
(b) A river.
(c) The railroad.
(d) A wooded path.

8. What does one Concord Trader use as a sign for his store?
(a) A bear hide.
(b) A salt fish.
(c) A Wooden plank.
(d) A Wagon Wheel.

9. Why does the Canadian woodchopper read the French paper?
(a) For the pictures.
(b) For the news.
(c) For practice.
(d) To show off to his neighbors.

10. Where is Walden Pond located?
(a) Albany, New York.
(b) Portland, Oregon.
(c) Keswick, England.
(d) Concord, Massachusetts.

11. "We are underbred and low-lived and..."
(a) Hardworking.
(b) Ignorant.
(c) Stupid.
(d) Illiterate.

12. What was the name of the family Thoreau bought a farm from and then returned the ownership to them?
(a) McLachlan.
(b) Smith.
(c) Biggins.
(d) Hollowell.

13. "I wanted to live deeply and..."
(a) Like each day was my last.
(b) Suck out all the marrow if life.
(c) To the fullest.
(d) Experience everything the world offered.

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

15. Thoreau states that fewer people came to see him at Walden Pond on...
(a) Charity Work.
(b) False Pretenses.
(c) Religious Missions.
(d) Trivial business.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Thoreau hear in the evening?

3. What does Thoreau like to have between himself and a conversation partner?

4. Who does Thoreau help toward the north star?

5. What item does Thoreau discover missing?

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