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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ball tells Henry that they have been feeding their souls. How does Henry reply?
(a) He has been feeding his face.
(b) He has been feeding his soul in nature.
(c) He has been feeding plants with manure.
(d) He has been feeding the birds.

2. Why will Henry not pay his taxes?
(a) He hates paying taxes.
(b) He does not have the money.
(c) Taxes do not help the people.
(d) The government is corrupt.

3. What does Henry tell Bailey he drinks?
(a) The air and gets drunk from nature.
(b) Juice and gets drunk from the wilderness.
(c) Water and gets drunk on love.
(d) Milk and gets drunk on exercising.

4. To what does Henry compare time?
(a) To a river.
(b) To sand.
(c) To a road.
(d) To the sun.

5. Where does Henry live?
(a) By the ocean.
(b) On the beach.
(c) Downtown Concord.
(d) By Walden Pond.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Henry note that it is good that men do not know how to fly?

2. Why is Henry applying for work as a repair person?

3. After telling Ellen about Transcendentalism, what does he invite her to do?

4. To what does Henry compare Waldo lecturing?

5. Why is Deacon Ball, the Chair of the Concord School Committee, shocked at what Henry has been discussing with his class?

(see the answer key)

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