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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What animal does Thoreau hear hunting with men?
(a) Hawks.
(b) Horses.
(c) Falcons.
(d) Hounds.

3. What writer does the French Canadian Woodsman love?
(a) Aesop.
(b) Virgil.
(c) Homer.
(d) Milton.

4. What does Thoreau see in the clear water of the pond one November day?
(a) A heron.
(b) A muskrat family.
(c) A large turtle.
(d) A school of perch.

5. What animal was Thoreau surprised to see walking along the shore of the pond?
(a) A wolf.
(b) A beaver.
(c) A dog.
(d) A cat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Thoreau's net income from his farm?

2. What animals were inside the shelter with the Field family?

3. How does Thoreau describe the temperature when he began to plaster his house?

4. To what does Thoreau compare his body?

5. In terms of the bean-field, what was Thoreau's greatest enemy?

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