Monday, November 14, 2011 Test

"Where I Lived and What I Lived for Test"

Each answer should be approximately one page. Please embellish each answer. Provide your own insights. Provide evidence directly from the text. Do not be afraid to reference other chapters of book or other class elements. Each answer should be one page (at least).

330 Class assignments:
Sharp Shooters: 3 & 7
Hydra: 2 & 5
Fantastic Four: 4 & 9
3 Writeteers: 1 & 8
Something about Pandas: 6 & 10

6pm Class assignments:
No Names: 1 & 10
The Lasers: 2 & 9
Kittens: 3 & 8
Fantastic Four: 4 & 7
The Zebra Stripes: 5 & 6
Most Creative: 9 & 10

The Questions:

1. When Thoreau warns against being roused by the “mechanical nudgings of some servitor” what specifically is he referring to? Relate the significance of this quotation to this section of the book in general.


2. What is, according to Thoreau, the most “memorable season of the day?” Why does he think so? Do you agree or disagree?


3. According to Thoreau, “any man can perform physical labor, one in a million can create effective intellectual exertions, but only one in a hundred million…” can do what? Relate the significance of this quotation to the book in general.


4. Thoreau says, “we do not ride upon” these things. These things “ride upon us.” What is he talking about? Relate the significance of this quotation to the book in general.


5.On page 74, Thoreau states, “we are determined to be starved, before we are hungry.” What does he mean by this? Relate the significance of this quotation to the book in general. Describe any significance this quote has to today’s technology-driven world.


 6. Toward the end of the section, Thoreau writes a scathing criticism of what medium? He claims that if you experience “one can read this and we never need read another.” What is he talking about? Relate the significance of this quotation to the book in general. Describe any relevance this may have in today’s media-driven world.


7. Throughout the chapter, Thoreau uses what d-word to describe how one should “live life?” What does living life by the meaning of this word mean? Cite one specific example from the book.


8. This “is but the stream (Thoreau) goes a- fishin’ in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It thin current slides away, but eternity remains.” What does he mean? Relate the significance of this quotation to the book (and life) in general.


9. Thoreau says “I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was…” what? “The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secret of things.” Relate the significance of this quotation to the book in general.


10. Thoreau says, “I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary.” He goes on to say that this part of his body is his “hands and feet.” He says it is for “burrowing.” What does he mean by this? Relate the significance of this quotation to the book in general.


Email completed tests to joecostal@yahoo.com by 3pm, Monday, November 14, 2011