Henry David Thoreau

From a poor family, Thoreau reduced his needs to the simplest level na managed to live on very little money . He worked his way through _________ University. Which university did he attend?

• Columbia

• Harvard

• Yale

• Stanford

With Emerson’s help, he began writing and publishing poems and essays in the transcedentalist journal called:

• The Atlantic

• The Day

• The Dial

• The Transcedentalism

In 1842, Henry David Thoreau published na essay which established the type of naturalistic writing he would become famous for. The essay’s name is:

• The Succession of Forest Trees

• Life Without Principle

• A Winter Walk

• Natural History of Massachussestts

Henry David Thoreau and his brother was caught in a love triangle. The brothers were both in love with Ellen Sewall.

• FALSE

• TRUE

“The mass of men serve the State, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.”

The quote above is a part of Thoreau’s work called:

• Civil Desobedience

• Walden

• The Maine Woods

• Slavery in Massachusetts

What were the beliefs that the transcendentalism or subgenre of American romanticism was based on?

• That the natural and spiritual worlds are connected.

• Empiricism, the exaltation to the individual in relations with nature and society.

• Belief in a higher reality validated by felt experience or without considering pure reason.

• For transcendentalists there is no ideal spiritual state.

What inspired Henry David Thoreau to write his master work: Walden?

• His job as a lower.

• His time at Harvard.

• His four years traveling through USA.

• His two years stay near a pond.

A big characteristic about Henry David Thoreau is his beliefs in:

• Communism.

• Capitalism.

• Spiritism.

• Transcendentalism.

Considering Walden's work we can say that;

• At the same time, the work is regarded as a declaration of personal independence, not involving social experience, a journey of spiritual discovery, and a manual for self-reliance.

• It is a fictional work that tells the tragic history of a couple.

• It is a work that critically analyzes modern nineteenth-century society that inspires the critical side of the reader.

• It is a romantic and poetical work.

He wrote “civil disobedience” after a night in jail, what did he opposed to in this book?

• Slavery and the Mexican-American War.

• Religious dominance and the war against Indians.

• Public power and liberty.

• Religious freedom and the Mexican-American War.