Excerpt from "Solitude" by Henry David Thoreau Please Help!
Question 1

Part A

In "Solitude," what can be inferred about the author's relationship with the natural world?

a. He feels lonely only when there are no animals around.

b. He is happiest in nature when it is at its most unpleasant.

c. He prefers the natural world to the company of other people.

d. He feels that human society has become too cold and impersonal.

Question 2

Part B

Which sentence best supports the answer in Part A?

a. "Some of my pleasantest hours were during the long rain storms in the spring or fall."

b."I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another."

c."They are Nature’s watchmen,—links which connect the days of animated life."

d."I go and come with a strange liberty in Na

For each of the following quotations, identify the work in which it is found by writing the corresponding letter on the blank line. choices may be used more than once. (a) wordsworth (b) keats (c) tennyson (d) whitman (e) dickinson 20. "if this be but a vain belief ,yet,oh! how oft- in darkness and amid the many shapes of joyless daylight; " 21. "or like stout cortez when with eagle eyes he stared at the pacific - and all his men looked at each other with a wild surmise" 22. "there lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail; there gloom the dark board seas. my mariners, souls that have toiled, a wrought, and thought with me" 23. "i speak the pass-word primeval, i give that sign of democracy, by god! i will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpoint of on the same terms." 24. "we slowly drove he knew no haste and i had put away my labor and leisure too, for his civility" 25. "myself moving forward then and now and forever, gathering and showing more always and with velocity, infinite and omnigenous, and the like of these among them, not too exclusive toward the reachers of my remembrancer," 26. "i cannot rest from travel; i will drink life to the lees. all times i have enjoyed greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those that love me and along," 27. "what mad pursuit what struggle to escape? what pipes and timbrels? what wild ecstasy? "