Walden Test | Final Test - Easy

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Walden Test | Final Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 103 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What insect came to Walden Pond by thousands in October?
(a) Hornets.
(b) Wasps.
(c) Ladybugs.
(d) Mosquitos.

2. What is the destiny of the human race?
(a) To become more enlightened.
(b) To advance technologically.
(c) To read Thoreau's writing.
(d) To become vegetarians.

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

4. Where was it rumored that Col. Quoil had been a soldier?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) Hong Kong.
(c) Waterloo.
(d) Upper Canada.

5. In a battle recorded by Olus Magnus, what do the victorious ants do?
(a) Bury the bodies of their own soldiers.
(b) Eat the bodies of their dead enemies.
(c) Enslave the young of their enemy hive.
(d) Form a circle around their dead enemies.

6. What does Thoreau compare to pearls and crystals?
(a) Icicles.
(b) Fish.
(c) Raindrops.
(d) Snowflakes.

7. What bird does Thoreau hear almost every day in the winter?
(a) A goose.
(b) An eagle.
(c) A duck.
(d) An owl.

8. "If you would be chaste, you must be..."
(a) Innocent.
(b) Pure.
(c) Temperate.
(d) Mindful.

9. What happened to a settler's family in Sutton in 1717?
(a) They couldn't pay their taxes and were forced to move.
(b) They were forced off their land by a flood.
(c) Their cottage was completely buried in snow.
(d) Their house burned down.

10. What word doesn't Thoreau use to describe John Field?
(a) Hardworking.
(b) Shiftless.
(c) Unlucky.
(d) Honest.

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

12. What kind of literature does Thoreau like best?
(a) Fiction.
(b) Scripture.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Classics.

13. What vegetable does Thoreau chiefly grow at Walden Pond?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Beans.
(c) Corn.
(d) Zucchini.

14. What instrument does Thoreau use to watch the war more closely?
(a) A microscope.
(b) A magnifying glass.
(c) A monocle.
(d) A telescope.

15. Where is John Field from?
(a) French Canada.
(b) England.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Massachusetts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal does Thoreau describe as "rudimental, burrowing men"?

2. Where did Thoreau consider living before Walden Pond?

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

4. To what does Thoreau compare his body?

5. What feeling does spring create in men?

(see the answer keys)

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