Henry David Thoreau
Pop Quiz Henry David Thoreau
Today's quiz honors essayist and naturalist Henry David Thoreau, who was born on this day in 1817.
1. Where in Massachusetts was Thoreau born?
a. Boston.
b. Concord.
c. Walden.
d. Northampton.
2. Name the movement, which believed in the universality of creation and the primacy of personal insight and experience, that is associated with Thoreau.
a. Impressionism.
b. Relativism.
c. Universalism.
d. Transcendentalism.
3. Thoreau's experiment in self-sufficiency, living in a cabin on the edge of a pond from 1845 to 1847, is chronicled in what work?
a. The Maine Woods.
b. Journal.
c. Walden.
d. Paradise (To Be) Regained.
4. Thoreau was also known as a political activist, spending a night in jail for refusing to pay a poll tax in protest of this war.
a. U.S.-Mexican War.
b. Civil War.
c. War of 1812.
