AP-Style Multiple Choice Quiz

Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For"

After reading the selection from “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For,” choose the best answer to each question. Click the submit button when finished. The following questions refer to paragraph 6.

Question 6.31 In the sentence that begins “By closing the eyes,” the speaker uses sleep as a metaphor for what?

Question 6.32 In context, the word “fabulous” in the first sentence could best be said to mean

Question 6.33 The rhetorical technique used to make the ironic assertion in the first sentence is

Question 6.34 The tone of the second sentence is

Question 6.35 In the sentence that begins “This is always exhilarating,” the word “This” refers to

Question 6.36 At the end of the paragraph, there is a shift from arguing for an immersion in reality toward

Question 6.37 According to the passage, which of the following inferences can be made about the speaker’s concept of reality?

Question 6.38 The purpose of the story from the “Hindoo book” is

Question 6.39 Based on the arguments in the passage, which of the following statements best represents the speaker’s ideas about art, music, and poetry?

Question 6.40 In the lines following the sentence beginning “I perceive that,” what is the rhetorical effect of the use of “we” and the references to New England and, more specifically, to Concord, Massachusetts?

Question 6.41 The overall tone of the passage is best described as