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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. Who does Thoreau meet when taking shelter from a thunder storm?
(a) His school teacher.
(b) The governor of Massachusetts.
(c) John Field and his family.
(d) Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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

3. What animal does Thoreau describe as "rudimental, burrowing men"?
(a) Foxes.
(b) Rabbits.
(c) Wolves.
(d) Woodchucks.

4. What date does Thoreau leave Walden?
(a) September 6th, 1845.
(b) October 6th, 1847.
(c) October 6h, 1846.
(d) September 6th, 1847.

5. What happened to Breed's hut?
(a) It burned down.
(b) It was abandoned.
(c) A family of birds nested there.
(d) It was used as a wood shed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the destiny of the human race?

2. How is Walden Pond described by the locals?

3. To what does Thoreau compare his body?

4. What does Thoreau do to pass the time on winter evenings?

5. What animal does Thoreau hear hunting with men?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was Brister Freeman?

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

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

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

6. What does Thoreau compare the spring melt with?

7. What did the old man see when he was hunting ducks?

8. How does Thoreau feel after he witnesses the ants battling?

9. Why does Thoreau leave Walden Pond?

10. What does Thoreau learn from his experiment?

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