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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What animals were inside the shelter with the Field family?
(a) Cats.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Chickens.
(d) Cows.

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

3. What is the morning?
(a) A time for poets.
(b) The awakening hour.
(c) A time for reflection.
(d) A spritual moment.

4. How close is Thoreau's nearest neighbor?
(a) Two miles.
(b) Half a mile.
(c) One mile.
(d) Three miles.

5. "Remember thy Creator in the days of thy..."
(a) Youth.
(b) Hardship.
(c) Despair.
(d) Bounty.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what do Thoreau's visitors often ask him?

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

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

4. For what purpose does Thoreau believe most men have learned to read?

5. Who or what does Thoreau visit?

(see the answer key)

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