In the underlined passage from Section 10 of Walden, Thoreau compares the shortness and limited nature of life (Time) to what?

A. To drinking pebbly stars and sandy bottoms of streambeds

B. To drinking from a shallow stream with a few fish swimming by

C. To fishing in a shallow stream with a thin current that slides away

Section 19 - The authority of government, even such as I am willing to submit to--for I will cheerfully obey those who know and can do better than I and in many things even those who neither know nor can do so well--is still an impure one to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed. It can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it. The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect. for the individual. Even the Chinese philosopher was wise enough to regard the. individual as the basis of the empire. Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it. not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man? There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. I please myself with imagining a State at least which can afford to be just to all men. and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor: which even would not think it inconsistent with its own repose if a few were to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow-men. A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened. would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious State, which also I have imagined, but not yet

 

9. Who are "the gods" referring to in this passage from the story?

"The house was an altar with ten thousand attendants, big, small, servicing, attending, in choirs.

But the gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly."

a. the mother, father, and children who lived in the house

b. politicians who began a war and then fled to safety

c. the inventors responsible for creating the house

d. scientists who developed the nuclear bomb astonishment

10. The dog frothed at the mouth, lying at the door, sniffing, its eyes turned to fire is an example of $a(n)$

a. simile

b. metaphor

c. personification

d. irony

11. What is the significance of the line, "The dog was gone."

a. This is the beginning of the takeover of the home

b. It represents the end of the last truly living thing in the house

c. The dog has finally left as have all the people

d. It symbolizes the total abandonment of the home

12. Why is it ironic that the house chooses the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains"

a. The poem is Mrs. McClellan's favorite, but she is not there to hear it

b. The house, like nature in the poem, is unaware of the demise of mankind

c. It is raining outside as it is raining in the poem

d. The house is mistaken about the poetry Mrs. McClellan liked

13. Why does the marking of time change at 10:00p.m.?

a. The damage has changed the home's operating system.

b. The home now realizes the family is no longer there.

C. The house is now dead and no longer announcing the time.

d. The home is set to change the marking for time at 10:00p.m.