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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to tales, who planted the beech grove?

2. What does Thoreau sometimes dream of owning?

3. Where have loons been caught with fishing hooks, eighty feet below the water's surface?

4. What kind of bird does Thoreau watch for hours in the fall?

5. What color is the ice from Walden Pond?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who was Brister Freeman?

5. What does Thoreau say we should practice moderation in?

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

7. What did Thoreau use as an excuse to carry a gun?

8. Who is the poet with whom Thoreau has a conversation at the beginning of the chapter?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay for or against vegetarianism. What are the impacts of your personal eating habits on your body, the environment, and the economy?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay explaining the impact Walden had on one of the following: Literature, art, psychology and philosophy.

Essay Topic 3

Choose any poem written about springtime. Write an essay about that poem, explaining the imagery and the author's point of view.

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