The following passage and questions are reprinted from earlier editions of the text and the test booklets. This exercise is not graded, but working through each question carefully will give you excellent practice to prepare for either a midterm or a final examination, depending on your instructor's course schedule. You can print-out your answers if you like.

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(1) I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. (2) I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. (3) I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. (4) For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to "glorify God and enjoy him forever."

1			What does "for" mean at the beginning of sentence 4?
2			In sentence 4, explain in your own words what Thoreau means when he writes that men are uncertain whether "it [life] is of the devil or of God."
3			Consider again the last sentence. What point is Thoreau making about "the chief end of man here [is] to "glorify God and enjoy him forever"?