Walden Quizzes
Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Walden? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. When asked, Thoreau said he was all of the following types of scientist except
Mystic
Pharmaceutical
Natural philsopher
Transcendentalist
Q. You might call transcendentalists
Conservatives
Hierarchicals
Agoraphobes
Proto-hippies
Q. Where were the transcendentalists based?
Mobile
Boise
Akron
Concord
Q. Who loaned Thoreau his land?
Roosevelt
Emerson
His wife
The bank, who else?
Q. For Thoreau, what takes center stage?
Man
Nature
The fat lady