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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 turn him in.
(b) Henry will kick him out.
(c) The authorities will catch him at Walden Pond.
(d) Henry will not be his friend.

2. What is Transcendentalism?
(a) The belief in karma, nirvana, and reincarnation.
(b) A way of traveling from one continent to another.
(c) A Christian denomination, similar to the Methodist faith.
(d) A person's thoughts or emotions that transcend or rise above their external perceptions.

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

4. Henry praises the speaker, and calls him by what name?
(a) President Polk.
(b) Congressman Lincoln from Illinois.
(c) My son.
(d) My brother.

5. As who does Waldo appear?
(a) The President.
(b) A General.
(c) A soldier.
(d) A Mexican soldier.

Short Answer Questions

1. The scene fades and Sam is doing what?

2. What pleases Henry about Williams?

3. Why does Henry wail in grief?

4. What does the lighting in this jail cell scene make clear through its frightening blasts of red and other psychedelic colors?

5. What words of Waldo's does Henry repeat like a mantra?

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