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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Henry visibly frustrated with himself?
(a) Ellen rejects him.
(b) Ellen does not love John as he thought.
(c) His rowing scares Ellen.
(d) His intensity frightens Ellen away.

2. Henry mocks Ball by telling his students to prevent all their senses from experiencing life so that they can all focus solely on what?
(a) School.
(b) Their teacher.
(c) College.
(d) The books.

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

4. What similarity between Henry and Waldo do John and Mother note?
(a) Waldo and Henry's personalites.
(b) Waldo and Henry's irritability.
(c) Waldo and Henry's looks.
(d) Waldo and Henry's speeches.

5. What word does Deacon Ball use incorrectly, which actually means forbidden?
(a) Penscribed.
(b) Perscribed.
(c) Prisribed.
(d) Proscribed.

6. 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.

7. How does Waldo respond when Ball asks him about listening to another clergyman?
(a) He tends to fall asleep.
(b) He becomes nervous.
(c) He gets good sermon ideas from other clergymen.
(d) He is always glad when the sermon is over.

8. How does Waldo find out about Henry's arrest?
(a) Lydian brings Waldo a note.
(b) Waldo wonders where Henry is and ends up at the jail.
(c) Lydian hears it at the market and tells Waldo.
(d) Waldo hears the news from a neighbor.

9. Why is Bailey in jail?
(a) Breaking and entering.
(b) Burning down a barn.
(c) Murdering his neighbor.
(d) Robbing a store.

10. Henry notes that he can feel the sound waves from the clock tower. Who does he say he is freer in jail than?
(a) The birds on the clock tower.
(b) Bailey, his cellmate.
(c) The people outside.
(d) The jailer.

11. What has Ellen's father done, regarding her little brother, Edmund?
(a) He has withdrawn Edmund from the school because he does not approve of Transcendentalism.
(b) He has enterd Edmund into the school because he is a Transcedentalist.
(c) he has withdrawn Edmund from the school because he does not care for Henry.
(d) He is sending Edmund to boarding school to get a better education.

12. Why does Henry make this agreement with Ellen before taking her to shore?
(a) He knows she likes John.
(b) He loves her.
(c) He knows that John likes her very much.
(d) He knows she loves him.

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

14. What does Henry offer to Waldo and Lydian?
(a) To make their home a green home.
(b) To clean their home for them.
(c) To be a tutor for their son.
(d) To babysit their son.

15. Why do the townsfolk look strangely at Henry?
(a) Henry is stumbling around.
(b) Henry takes off one shoe.
(c) Henry is sneaking around in the dark.
(d) Henry is arguing with the constable.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Ball tells Henry that they have been feeding their souls. How does Henry reply?

3. Bailey is impressed and observes that Henry must be a teacher. Why is Bailey impressed with Henry?

4. Why is Henry seized with a new feeling of love for Ellen?

5. What does Waldo tell Lydian will be interesting?

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