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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Their teacher.
(b) The books.
(c) College.
(d) School.

2. What happens to the man, in Waldo's story, who goes to India to earn a fortune, so he can retire a poet?
(a) He dies with a huge fortune and no poems.
(b) He dies on his way to India.
(c) He dies wealthy and a poet.
(d) He never earns a fortune.

3. If more people were willing to go to jail to protest the government, they could effect change on what scale?
(a) The scale of the Civil War.
(b) A small scale.
(c) The scale of the American Revolution.
(d) The scale of the Mexican War.

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

5. Why is Henry seized with a new feeling of love for Ellen?
(a) She actually understands Transcendentalism
(b) She weeps over John's coffin.
(c) She comforts him.
(d) She says she loves him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Henry discover as he is busily pointing out different species of grass?

2. The audience's attention then goes back to the jail cell, where Henry is seen waking up who?

3. What is Henry's response when Ellen asks what will happen to the school now that there are no students?

4. How do John and Henry get on the topic of polygamy?

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

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