<p> Henry David Thoreau Study Guide Directions: Answer all of the following questions as thoroughly as possible. You will need these questions/answers to study for your test. from “Where I lived, and What I lived For” (237-8) 1. Reread the first sentence on page 237. What effect does the first-person point of view have on this sentence?</p><p>2. Based on the second paragraph, what do you think Thoreau hopes to find through his solitude in the natural world?</p><p>3. What is the point of Thoreau’s figurative language in the third paragraph on page 237?</p><p>4. What comparison does Thoreau make at the bottom of page 237 and top of 238?</p><p> from “Solitude” (238)</p><p>5. What does Thoreau “thoroughly enjoy” as it rains heavily?</p><p>6. Does Thoreau feel lonely while in solitude? Explain.</p><p>7. According to Thoreau, what benefits does solitude offer the individual?</p><p>8. Do you feel that Thoreau’s ideas are outdated, or are his beliefs still valid today? from “Conclusion” (243-4) 9. In the final excerpt, what reason does Thoreau give for leaving the woods?</p><p>10. What does Thoreau say he learned by his “experiment”? Memorable Quotations </p><p>1. “Our life is frittered away by . An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest” (237).</p><p>2. “We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon ” (237).</p><p>3. I have found that no exertion of the can bring two nearer to one another” (238). </p><p>4. “It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a for ourselves” (243).</p><p>5. “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different ” (243).</p><p>6. “I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours” (243).</p>