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