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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Thoreau state was a pleasant pastime?
(a) Housework.
(b) Visiting friends.
(c) Listening to music.
(d) The theater.

3. What did Thoreau imagine doing?
(a) Living off the land.
(b) Writing a book.
(c) Building a house.
(d) Buying a farm.

4. What does Thoreau wage a war with in his bean-field?
(a) Insects.
(b) Weeds.
(c) Small Animals.
(d) Mold.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Thoreau put in jail?

2. Thoreau speaks of visitors from what charitable institution?

3. Some of Thoreau's pleasantest hours are spent during this kind of weather:

4. Why does the Canadian woodchopper read the French paper?

5. When did Thoreau begin to live in the woods?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Thoreau's theory about entertaining visitors?

2. How does Thoreau compare the people in the village to muskrats?

3. What does it mean to "live deliberately"?

4. How does Thoreau know that visitors have dropped by while he is gone?

5. What benefits does Thoreau say he gains from simplifying his existence?

6. How does Thoreau clean his house?

7. Why does Thoreau despise the railway?

8. What effect does Thoreau claim nature has on man?

9. How does Thoreau explain his relationship with his beans?

10. Why does Thoreau hate the name 'Flint's Pond'?

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