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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. "Sell your clothes and keep your..."
(a) Books.
(b) Self-respect.
(c) Modesty.
(d) Thoughts.

2. Which tribe calls hunters the "best men"?
(a) The Mohawks.
(b) The Cree.
(c) The Iroquois.
(d) The Algonquins.

3. Where is John Field from?
(a) England.
(b) Ireland.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) French Canada.

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

5. Where did Thoreau consider living before Walden Pond?
(a) Baker Farm.
(b) Pleasant Meadow.
(c) White Pond.
(d) Shangri-la.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word doesn't Thoreau use to describe John Field?

3. What does Thoreau sometimes dream of owning?

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

5. How is Walden Pond described by the locals?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Thoreau learn from his experiment?

2. Why does Thoreau leave Walden Pond?

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

4. Why does Thoreau throw sweet corn on the snow by his door?

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

6. Why does Thoreau's self-respect fall when he goes fishing?

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

8. How does Thoreau say Walden Pond got its revenge on the men who were harvesting the ice?

9. What do the hunters say is the downfall of the fox in the foxhunt?

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

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