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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is Henry's response when Ellen asks what will happen to the school now that there are no students?
(a) He will find new students.
(b) He will be the student and will learn from nature.
(c) He says they will close and he will have to go back to teaching at a university.
(d) He will change the way the school is run to keep students.
2. Why is Henry seized with a new feeling of love for Ellen?
(a) She actually understands Transcendentalism
(b) She says she loves him.
(c) She comforts him.
(d) She weeps over John's coffin.
3. What word does Deacon Ball use incorrectly, which actually means forbidden?
(a) Perscribed.
(b) Prisribed.
(c) Proscribed.
(d) Penscribed.
4. Why will Henry not give money to the government?
(a) He does not approve of its actions.
(b) He is not an American.
(c) He does not like the United States.
(d) He does not have the money to give to the government.
5. 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 plants with manure.
(c) He has been feeding his soul in nature.
(d) He has been feeding the birds.
Short Answer Questions
1. To what does John attribute Henry's nonconformity?
2. Henry returns to his jail cell. What is Bailey happily doing?
3. What does Henry point out to Bailey about doing what is expected of you?
4. Waldo, who is clearly quite old, is losing his senses, mistakes what for a person?
5. What does Henry note that people must do, regarding books?
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