A. honor and glory
B. meticulous faction
C. responsibility
D. revenge and betrayal
Related Mcqs:
- Thoreau scales humans down to the size of ants in order to____________________?
A. examine the aggressive, dominating and stupid nature of human warfare
B. create a very vivid and impressive picture
C. shows his real intentions in writing
D. portray humans allegorically - The Battle of the Ants is an excerpt from______________?
A. Civil Disobedience
B. Walden
C. Herald of Freedom
D. Life without principle - Thoreau believed that if a government was unjust, people need to resist the government. This is called_____________?
A. Following orders.
B. Resisting arrest.
C. Civil disobedience.
D. Mutiny. - Why does Henry David Thoreau write his book “Walden” ?
A. To show ideas of transcendentalism are put into action
B. To critique slavery
C. Tell his entire life story
D. None of the above - Thoreau was part of the Transcend lists, which were founded by________________?
A. Mark Twain.
B. Herman Melville.
C. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
D. Walt Whitman. - Thoreau through this essay tries to portray_______________?
A. Transcendentalism
B. Imperialism
C. Socialism
D. Naturalism - Henry David Thoreau lived for a while_______________?
A. At Lake Tahoe.
B. At Willow Pond.
C. At the Feather River.
D. At Walden Pond. - What statement below best sums up the literary significance of Thoreau ?
A. Father of Free verse
B. Father of american poetry
C. Self-reliance
D. Father of American Liteature - _____________the eyes of all people are upon us; soe that if wee shall deale falsely with our god in this worke wee have undertaken and soe cause him to withdrawe his preent help from us, wee shall be made a story and a by-word through the world, wee shall open the mouthes of enemies to speake evill of the ways of god and all professours for Gods sake; wee shall shame the faces of many of gods worthy servants, and cause theire prayers to be turned into Cursses upon us till we be consumed out of the good land whether wee are going ?
A. Fredrick Douglass
B. John Winthrop
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. William Apess - It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of this picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down – but with a shudder even more thrilling than before – upon the re-modelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant eyelike windows. What is the meaning of the word tarn? Veldu eitt ?
A. A bird
B. A small mountain lake
C. A wide river
D. A high cliff
