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.

d. Spanish-

American War.

5. Thoreau's essay about why an individual's conscience can take precedence over civil laws would inspire Mohandas Gandhi and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Name the original title of the essay.

a. "Civil Disobedience."

b. "Resistance to Civil Government."

c. "Speak Truth to Power."

d. "The Universe Bends Toward Justice."

6. To what issue was Thoreau referring when he wrote, "They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and make-shifts, merely. They put off the day of settlement indefinitely, and meanwhile, the debt accumulates"?

a. Tariffs and the national debt.

b. Secession.

c. The Dred Scott decision.

d. The Fugitive Slave Act.

7. Whom was Thoreau referring to when he wrote, "If there is any abode for the spirits of the pious; if, as wise men suppose, great souls are not extinguished with the body, may you rest placidly, and call your family . . . to the contemplation of your virtues, which must not be lamented, either silently or aloud. Let us honor you by our admiration, rather than by short-lived praises, and, if nature aid us, by our emulation of you"?

a. Abraham Lincoln.

b. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

c. John Brown.

d. Frederick Douglass.

8. Which quote is Thoreau not known for?

a. "Simplify, simplify."

b. "I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life."

c. "Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."

d. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. . . . Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."

9. In what essay did Thoreau offer the following? "I am astonished to observe how willing men are to lumber their minds with such rubbish - to permit idle rumors and incidents of the most insignificant kind to intrude on ground which should be sacred to thought. Shall the mind be a public arena, where the affairs of the street and the gossip of the tea-table chiefly are discussed? Or shall it be a quarter of heaven itself - an hypaethral temple, consecrated to the service of the gods?"

a. "Life Without Principle."

b. "On the Passing of Michael Jackson."

c. "Walden."

d. "Whither MSNBC?"

10. When Thoreau died in 1862, age 44, one longtime friend wrote this as part of a lengthy eulogy: "Had his genius been only contemplative, he had been fitted to his life, but with his energy and practical ability he seemed born for great enterprise and for command; and I so much regret the loss of his rare powers of action, that I cannot help counting it a fault in him that he had no ambition." Who wrote it?

a. Walt Whitman.

b. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

c. Louisa May Alcott.

d. Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Answers: C3.