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- 1.What is a stanza?
- A.
A rhyme pattern at the ends of the lines
- B.
A division in a poem, like a paragraph in an essay
- C.
A short, well-worded truth about life
- D.
A type of a comparson
- 2.Reread the sixth stanza. What two things does the speaker say you need to live life fully?
- A.
Heart and God
- B.
Acts and thoughts
- C.
The future and the past
- D.
The living and the dead
- 3.What is the speaker saying in lines 9-12 of the poem?
- A.
Dreams are harmful.
- B.
Life is about making progress.
- C.
Try to avoid struggle and hardship.
- D.
The most important thing is to be happy.
- 4.The following questions are about "A Psalm of Life." According to lines 29-32, the speaker would most likely describe life as
- A.
An ocean
- B.
A shipwreck
- C.
A dream
- D.
A journey
- 5.The speaker highlights life's difficulties when he says life is like
- A.
A field of battle
- B.
An empty vision
- C.
Dust in a grave
- D.
Muffled drums
- 6.What does the speaker say you should do in lines 21-23 of "A Psalm of Life"?
- A.
Always live your life with the future in mind.
- B.
Wonder about what tomorrow will bring you.
- C.
Try to remember the lessons of the past.
- D.
Act in the present instead of the past or future.
- 7.What is the basic meaning of stanza 8?
- A.
Footprints can tell you a lot about history.
- B.
People who survive shipwrecks learn from others.
- C.
Leave behind acts from which others will learn.
- D.
Life can be dangerous and troublesome.
- 8.According to the last stanza, what are two things we should be doing with our lives?
- A.
Trusting in our fellow man and trusting in ourselves
- B.
Meeting goals and working toward new ones
- C.
Learning from the past and looking ahead
- D.
Showing love and making peace
- 9.An aphorism is
- A.
A common expression, like a cliche
- B.
A type of an essay
- C.
A short, wise saying about life
- D.
An analogy between two unrelated things
- 10.The following questions come from "Self-Reliance." The best translation of lines 1-2 is
- A.
Being jealous of someone else is an indication that you are still immature
- B.
It's better to figure something out for yourself than to take someone's word for it
- C.
No man can become truly educated until he gives up ignorance
- D.
Trying to be like someone else is like destroying your own individuality
- 11.In the context of line 12, a nonconformist is someone who
- A.
Refuses to follow accepted customs
- B.
Wonders how the world was created
- C.
Feels inadequate in a large crowd
- D.
Tries to find meaning in nature
- 12.According to line 24, the speaker says the only thing he concerns himself with is
- A.
Being selfish and getting what he wants
- B.
Thinking about the best ways to live life and how to show other people how to do it
- C.
What will be best for the majority of people
- D.
What he thinks he should do, not what others think about him
- 13.The best translation of line 31 is
- A.
Society prefers people who are individuals
- B.
It's hard to be happy when you are living in the world
- C.
The world is unhappy unless we are nonconformists
- D.
People are often "punished" for being different
- 14.According to lines 28-30, what is easy to do?
- A.
Be yourself when you're in a crowd
- B.
Be yourself when you are by yourself
- C.
Do what the crowd does when you are by yourself
- D.
See the difference between what society wants and what we want
- 15.According to the last two paragraphs of the essay, we should not be so concerned with
- A.
Always doing the same thing that we've always done
- B.
Politics, religion or philosophy
- C.
Becoming famous like Pythagoras, Socrates, Jesus and others
- D.
Being right all the time
- 16.The following questions come from Walden. What is significant about the date he moved into his cabin?
- A.
It represents the day that he completely severed ties with his past
- B.
A long struggle to win personal respect was beginning
- C.
It was an outward expression of his independence from society
- D.
It also coincided with the summer solstice, the longest day of the year
- 17.Which of the following reasons best expresses why he went to the woods?
- A.
“Our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness.”
- B.
“If we stay at home and mind our business, who will want railroads?”
- C.
“I wished to live deliberately.”
- D.
“I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- 18.Which of the following reasons does he give for leaving the pond?
- A.
He was taken to jail for not paying his poll-tax and had to continue living in Concord when he was released.
- B.
Emerson had returned from a speaking engagement and needed his assistance at home.
- C.
He had begun to feel lonely and needed the company of society again to cheer and inspire him.
- D.
He had other things he wanted to accomplish and didn’t want to waste anymore time at the pond.
- 19.After only living by the pond a week, what did Thoreau notice that made him write the following statement?“The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men: and so with the paths which the mind travels.”
- A.
The deer trails through the forest
- B.
A solitary gravestone in the middle of the forest
- C.
A beaten, worn shoe he found at the edge of the pond
- D.
The path from his front door to the pond
- 20.He uses a drummer metaphor to talk about ________________.
- A.
How some people follow different dreams and purposes in life
- B.
How society continues beating and beating people down until they conform
- C.
How each person at heart is really similar to everyone else in the world
- D.
How it is the most important instrument in the band, just like freedom is the most important principle in life
- 21.He thinks that someone who has “built castles in the air”
- A.
Is a foolish dreamer
- B.
Should work to make the dream come true
- C.
Is his spiritual brother
- D.
Has completely wasted his life
- 22.Thoreau’s perspective on poverty is that
- A.
Poverty brings you closer to God
- B.
The wealthy should give their extra money to the poor so that everyone would be equal
- C.
Being wealthy is necessary for fulfillment
- D.
Having a lot of money isn't necessary to live a happy life
- 23.The bug story at the end of Conclusion is about
- A.
. a new bug species discovered by scientists of his time
- B.
A bug he saw crawling across a leaf by Walden Pond
- C.
A bug that hatched from an egg in a table
- D.
How bugs work together to accomplish tasks instead of working on their own
- 24.Choose the best translation of the following quote: “I learned this, at least , by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
- A.
If you go for your dreams, you’ll be surprised at how successful you’ll be.
- B.
Just living life is a mark of success, regardless of how society defines it.
- C.
Dreams and imagination are necessary ingredients for contentment.
- D.
Surprisingly, dreams are great but not what real life is all about.
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