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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Waldo say "were trying to buy popularity?"
(a) College professors.
(b) His students.
(c) The members of his congregation.
(d) Roman emperors.

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

3. 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.

4. What do both Henry and Waldo do simultaneously?
(a) Henry argues with Ball, as Waldo argues with his wife.
(b) Henry resigns from teaching, as Waldo resigns as a Unitarian Minister.
(c) Henry teaches new courses and Waldo speaks at a different Unitarian Church.
(d) Henry tells his students he must follow the curriculum, as Waldo tells the congregation he will preach to the Unitarian principles.

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(a) he has withdrawn Edmund from the school because he does not care for Henry.
(b) He has withdrawn Edmund from the school because he does not approve of Transcendentalism.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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Henry compare Waldo lecturing?

2. Sam says he cannot make that happen. What does Henry do?

3. What is Bailey doing as Henry speaks to him?

4. Henry tells Sam he will not pay for the war in Mexico. Why?

5. What does Ball threaten to do to Henry?

(see the answer key)

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