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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. Which animals get under Thoreau's house as spring beings?
(a) Chipmunks.
(b) Mice.
(c) Black squirrels.
(d) Red squirrels.

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

3. Where have loons been caught with fishing hooks, eighty feet below the water's surface?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) New York.
(c) Maine.
(d) Quebec.

4. What animal does Thoreau describe as "rudimental, burrowing men"?
(a) Woodchucks.
(b) Foxes.
(c) Wolves.
(d) Rabbits.

5. Who does Thoreau meet when taking shelter from a thunder storm?
(a) The governor of Massachusetts.
(b) John Field and his family.
(c) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(d) His school teacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who came the farthest to visit Thoreau in the winter?

2. What does Thoreau have difficulty finding in the winter?

3. "We can never have enough of..."

4. What do people come from town to take from Walden Pond?

5. What is the destiny of the human race?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Thoreau learn from his experiment?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What game does Thoreau play with the loon?

10. Why does Thoreau 'visit' particular trees?

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