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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 does one hunter use as a musical instrument?
(a) A tree leaf.
(b) A saw.
(c) Spoons.
(d) Grass.

2. In what solitary amusements do most Yankees engage?
(a) Skiing and swimming.
(b) Walking and hiking.
(c) Hunting and Fishing.
(d) Reading and playing cards.

3. Who or what does Thoreau visit?
(a) Books.
(b) Scholars.
(c) Family.
(d) Trees.

4. What do people come from town to take from Walden Pond?
(a) Fish.
(b) Water.
(c) Ice.
(d) Aquatic plants.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. "If you would be chaste, you must be..."

2. What word doesn't Thoreau use to describe John Field?

3. What animal grows to be four feet long, yet is rarely seen by humans?

4. What happened to Breed's hut?

5. Which animals get under Thoreau's house as spring beings?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Thoreau think John Field's future holds?

2. How does Thoreau describe his encounters with cats in the forest?

3. Why does Thoreau's self-respect fall when he goes fishing?

4. How does Thoreau build a store of food for winter?

5. Why does Thoreau admire the 'wild men' who go ice-fishing on Walden Pond?

6. How does Thoreau describe the condition of the hut that John Field's family lives in?

7. What does Thoreau say about Zilpha's life?

8. How does Thoreau say Walden Pond got its revenge on the men who were harvesting the ice?

9. What happened to the well on the Field's property?

10. What are the two paths that Thoreau finds himself drawn to?

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