Henry David Thoreau - Walden
8 Questions
| Total Attempts: 16
Questions and Answers
- 1.Henry David Thoreau lived at Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts for two years, two months and two days
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 2.Henry David Thoreau owned Walden Pond
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True
- B.
False
- 3.Thoreau's experiment was to “live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
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True
- B.
False
- 4.Thoreau's cabin at Walden pond was very expensive and luxurious
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True
- B.
False
- 5.Thoreau often visited his friends while living at Walden Pond
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True
- B.
False
- 6.Thoreau inspired the conservation movement from 1850-1920 (including John Muir and The President Theodor Rosevelt)
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True
- B.
False
- 7.It took Thoreau one year to write his book Walden
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True
- B.
False
- 8.Henry David Thoreau inspired the 20th century protest movements with his 'civil disobedience' , later protest movements against the Vietnam War.
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True
- B.
False
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