The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail | Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Act 1

1. What is the setting for the beginning of the play?

2. In what town is the play set?

3. Why is the lighting on the empty areas of the set weak?

4. Who is the old man who enters with his wife?

5. In another area of the stage, Henry's mother is visibly upset. What does she ask Henry?

6. Henry sits up on his cot, and what is his response to his mother's question?

7. Henry and his mother keep talking, and she tells him she does not know who he is. How does he reply?

8. Waldo, who is clearly quite old, is losing his senses, mistakes what for a person?

9. Henry replies...
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