# 🌲 Walden Trivia Set
**Used:** 2025-06-10  
**Categories:** Regular, Fill-in-the-Blank, Multiple Choice  
**Topic:** *Walden*, Henry David Thoreau, transcendentalism, American literature

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## 🎯 Regular Questions

### 1. Who wrote *Walden*?  
**Answer:** Henry David Thoreau  
**Taglines:**  
- The OG off-grid blogger.  
- Your cabin-core forefather.  
- Thoreau it on the ground!  
- When beards met brooding.  
- More forest, less filter.

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### 2. Where is Walden Pond located?  
**Answer:** Concord, Massachusetts  
**Taglines:**  
- Not just a pond, a lifestyle.  
- Home of ducks and deep thoughts.  
- Thoreau’s thinking spot—yours too, if you’re lost.  
- Massachusetts: Where moody guys write manifestos.  
- From the Revolutionary War to revolutionary naps.

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### 3. What was Thoreau’s stated reason for going to live at Walden Pond?  
**Answer:** To live deliberately  
**Taglines:**  
- Because "live impulsively" was already taken.  
- Deliberately... alone... and kind of smug.  
- Before YOLO, there was Walden.  
- Life: now in slow motion.  
- He went into the woods and came back insufferable.

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### 4. In what year was *Walden* first published?  
**Answer:** 1854  
**Taglines:**  
- Peak 1800s hipster era.  
- Before the Civil War, after common sense.  
- When books were heavy and men were heavier.  
- 1854: When you could write about ponds and get famous.  
- The year solitude went viral.

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### 5. What is Thoreau’s most famous line from *Walden*?  
**Answer:** "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately."  
**Taglines:**  
- Most quoted line by people who’ve never camped.  
- Nature: now with literary justification.  
- Deliberately vague, profoundly smug.  
- Put it on a mug, call it a life philosophy.  
- Every college dorm poster in one sentence.

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## 🧠 Fill-in-the-Blank Questions

### 1. Thoreau lived at Walden Pond for over ______ year(s).  
**Answer:** Two  
**Taglines:**  
- Long enough to get poetic, not long enough to go full Grizzly Man.  
- Two years, one attitude.  
- Double the solitude, triple the smug.  
- That's like 40 influencer retreats.  
- Thoreau: still wouldn’t make rent today.

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### 2. Thoreau was a student and mentee of ______ Emerson.  
**Answer:** Ralph Waldo  
**Taglines:**  
- When your mentor's name sounds like a law firm.  
- Waldo, but philosophical.  
- He found Waldo... in Concord.  
- Mentorship, now with more transcendence.  
- Brooding bromance.

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### 3. *Walden* is considered a key text in American ________.  
**Answer:** Transcendentalism  
**Taglines:**  
- Not a Hogwarts house, but close.  
- When philosophy gets dirt under its nails.  
- Transcend this, nerds.  
- Emo for intellectuals.  
- The original “just vibes” movement.

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### 4. Thoreau's writing emphasizes nature, simplicity, and ________.  
**Answer:** Individualism  
**Taglines:**  
- Because group chats weren’t invented yet.  
- Me, myself, and the pond.  
- Nature’s original lone wolf.  
- Simplicity with a superiority complex.  
- You do you, transcendently.

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### 5. Walden Pond is now a protected ______ park.  
**Answer:** State  
**Taglines:**  
- Where tourists recreate introspection.  
- Solitude now with parking.  
- Your transcendental selfie spot.  
- Nature, gift-shopped.  
- Thoreau rolls in his grave hourly.

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## ❓ Multiple Choice Questions

### 1. What type of structure did Thoreau live in at Walden Pond?  
A) Tent  
B) Cabin  
C) Cave  
D) Treehouse  
**Answer:** B) Cabin  
**Taglines:**  
- No plumbing, but lots of pondering.  
- Thoreau’s Tiny House: Season 1.  
- Rustic with a side of self-righteous.  
- Cabin fever, with footnotes.  
- Real estate for brooding.

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### 2. Thoreau’s stay at Walden Pond lasted approximately:  
A) 6 months  
B) 1 year  
C) 2 years  
D) 5 years  
**Answer:** C) 2 years  
**Taglines:**  
- The longest gap year ever.  
- Just long enough to grow a beard of meaning.  
- 730 days of hardcore overthinking.  
- That’s a lot of alone time.  
- Could’ve just gone to therapy.

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### 3. What nearby body of water inspired the title *Walden*?  
A) Lake Superior  
B) Lake George  
C) Walden Pond  
D) Mirror Lake  
**Answer:** C) Walden Pond  
**Taglines:**  
- He named it after what he stared at most.  
- Not a metaphor, just a puddle with purpose.  
- The pond that launched a thousand syllabi.  
- Still water runs pretentious.  
- Splashy title, moody content.

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### 4. Which theme is NOT central to *Walden*?  
A) Consumerism  
B) Nature  
C) Solitude  
D) Magic  
**Answer:** D) Magic  
**Taglines:**  
- Sorry, no Hogwarts, just logs.  
- Magic is for wizards, not philosophers.  
- He was alone, not enchanted.  
- Transcendence, not illusions.  
- The only spells were guilt and shame.

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### 5. What government action did Thoreau protest by refusing to pay taxes?  
A) Prohibition  
B) The Mexican-American War  
C) Women's suffrage  
D) The Louisiana Purchase  
**Answer:** B) The Mexican-American War  
**Taglines:**  
- The original tax rebel.  
- Civil disobedience: now trending.  
- No war, just woods.  
- When nonpayment was protest, not laziness.  
- Uncle Sam got ghosted.
