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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What vegetable does Thoreau chiefly grow at Walden Pond?
(a) Corn.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Zucchini.
(d) Beans.

3. What kind of bird does Thoreau watch for hours in the fall?
(a) Loon.
(b) Goose.
(c) Duck.
(d) Swan.

4. Who came the farthest to visit Thoreau in the winter?
(a) A poet.
(b) A reporter.
(c) A farmer.
(d) A hunter.

5. What does Thoreau do to test the strength of the ice?
(a) He throws stones on it.
(b) He jumps on it.
(c) He stands on it.
(d) He cuts out small pieces and measures them.

6. What does Thoreau call his time at Walden Pond?
(a) A an exercise in futility.
(b) A lonely period.
(c) A seclusion.
(d) An experiment.

7. "We can never have enough of..."
(a) Love.
(b) Nature.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) God.

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

9. What dramatic event occurs while Thoreau lives at Walden Pond?
(a) He spends a night in jail.
(b) His mother dies.
(c) He is shot by a hunter.
(d) His house burns down.

10. What does Thoreau have difficulty finding in the winter?
(a) The path to town.
(b) Water.
(c) Food.
(d) Fire wood.

11. Where was it rumored that Col. Quoil had been a soldier?
(a) Hong Kong.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) Waterloo.
(d) Upper Canada.

12. What animal does Thoreau sometimes eat with relish?
(a) Barbecued woodchuck.
(b) Roasted squirrel.
(c) Boiled rabbit.
(d) Fried rat.

13. What creatures do Thoreau find battling in the wood-pile?
(a) Birds.
(b) Ants.
(c) Cats.
(d) Spiders.

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

15. What kind of bird does Thoreau begin to see again in April?
(a) Pigeons.
(b) Robins.
(c) Sparrows.
(d) Geese.

Short Answer Questions

1. What bird does Thoreau hear almost every day in the winter?

2. What animal does Thoreau want to eat when it crosses his path?

3. What bird comes to the pond in the fall?

4. Thoreau is inclined to be a...

5. What does Thoreau say he chanced upon one day?

(see the answer keys)

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