Walden quiz and flashcards

What does the narrator identify as a burden on free living in Economy?

How does the narrator urge people to respond to inherited advice?

Why does the narrator release the Hollowell farm purchase?

What purpose do simple shelter and morning routines support?

What does the narrator propose that Concord support?

What does understanding serious literature require?

What connects the narrator with society in Sounds?

What ends the narrator's brief doubt about living away from people?

What matters more than elaborate meals in the narrator's hospitality?

Which visitor combines physical skill and contentment with practical reasoning?

What does the narrator say people should cultivate beyond crops?

How do passing travelers respond to the narrator's fieldwork?

Why is the narrator imprisoned in The Village?

What does the narrator connect with getting lost?

What attitude toward nature does the narrator criticize in The Ponds?

What drives the narrator into John Field's hut?

What does the narrator recommend to John Field?

What does the narrator argue mature people should outgrow?

What does the narrator compare with human warfare?

What does the cooking stove fail to provide?

What helps the narrator locate former woodland homes?

What prompts a surviving family member's sorrow?

What attracts animals to the narrator's door in winter?

How does the fleeing hare change the narrator's response?

What claim do the narrator's depth measurements reject?

What connects Walden imaginatively with the Ganges?

What does the branching thawing sand suggest to the narrator?

What human possibilities does spring renewal bring to mind?

What does the narrator compare habitual thinking to?

What action does Thoreau urge against government injustice?