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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what is Williams worried?
(a) Henry will kick him out.
(b) Henry will turn him in.
(c) Henry will not be his friend.
(d) The authorities will catch him at Walden Pond.

2. The audience's attention then goes back to the jail cell, where Henry is seen waking up who?
(a) His brother, John.
(b) The guard, Sam.
(c) His friend, Waldo.
(d) His cellmate, Bailey.

3. About what is Henry's poem/prayer?
(a) It has to do with renewal of faith and hope in God.
(b) It has more to do with his own beliefs than with Bailey's legal troubles.
(c) It has to do with protecting Bailey in his time of need.
(d) It has to do with confession and forgiveness.

4. As a child what does Henry find berry picking better than?
(a) Just eating the pudding his mother made from them.
(b) Playing with his brother.
(c) Staying in the house.
(d) Going to school.

5. What is Henry's response when Ellen asks what will happen to the school now that there are no students?
(a) He says they will close and he will have to go back to teaching at a university.
(b) He will find new students.
(c) He will change the way the school is run to keep students.
(d) He will be the student and will learn from nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Waldo respond to the news of Williams?

2. Who are the only people married in John and Henry's family?

3. Why does Ellen not marry John?

4. What does Ellen wish about Henry?

5. Where does Williams want to stay?

(see the answer key)

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