from "Walden"

According to Thoreau, contentment is

• boring.

• desirable.

• common.

• impossible.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Thoreau believes that he was wisest

• when he was born.

• when he decided to live at Walden Pond.

• while he was living at Walden Pond.

• when he decided to leave Walden Pond.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Thoreau's home on Walden Pond could best be described as a

• tent.

• cabin.

• mansion.

• houseboat.

Thoreau's attitude toward newspapers and letters is one of

• fondness.

• fascination.

• annoyance.

• grudging acceptance.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

When Thoreau says, "I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another," he means that physical closeness

• is enough.

• is all that people can really hope for.

• doesn't guarantee intellectual or spiritual closeness.

• can feel the same as intellectual or spiritual closeness

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Thoreau decided to leave Walden Pond because he

• had grown lonely.

• felt that it was time to do other things.

• didn't find what he had hoped to find there.

• knew that he would never truly feel at home there.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Which of the following quotations contains a metaphor?

• "I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand."

• "The upright white hewn studs and freshly planed door and window casings gave it a clean and airy look."

• "Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches today to save nine tomorrow."

• "Hardly a man takes a half hour's nap after dinner, but when he wakes he holds up his head and asks, 'What's the news?'"

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Which of the following quotations contains a simile?

• "I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear."

• "Instead of three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one."

• "I took up my abode..on Independence day, or the fourth of July, 1845."

• "The very dew seemed to hang upon the trees later into the day than usual, as on the sides of mountains."

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Which of the following quotations contains personification?

• "I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary."

• "As the sun arose, I saw [Walden Pond] throwing off its nightly clothing of mist."

• "still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men."

• "For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about [life], whether it is of the devil or of God."

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3