1. What kind of lives do most people lead? What does Thoreau call resignation?

2. What happens to things people believe to be true?

3. Does Thoreau believe in the wisdom of old age? Why, or why not?

4. To what does Thoreau compare the condition of humans?

5. What is the shanty like?

6. Who watches Thoreau? What effect does the spectator have on the occasion?

7. Why is the cellar of a house so important?

8. What meaning does Thoreau give to the word awake ?

9. What is the "highest of arts"?

10. Why did Thoreau go to the woods?

11. What does Thoreau recommend?

12. What advice does Thoreau give?

13. What does Thoreau think of "progress"?

14. Why did Thoreau leave the woods?

15. What did Thoreau learn?

16. What does Thoreau advocate?