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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ball threaten to do to Henry?
(a) Report him to the School Committee.
(b) Reprimand him.
(c) Fire him.
(d) Cancel his courses.

2. Henry returns to his jail cell. What is Bailey happily doing?
(a) Practicing writing his name.
(b) Reading a book.
(c) Talking to Sam.
(d) Dreaming.

3. Why does Ellen offer to leave?
(a) She is failing the course.
(b) She is the only girl.
(c) Her father does not want her in the school.
(d) She has not paid tuition.

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

5. 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(a) He has withdrawn Edmund from the school because he does not approve of Transcendentalism.
(b) he has withdrawn Edmund from the school because he does not care for Henry.
(c) He has enterd Edmund into the school because he is a Transcedentalist.
(d) He is sending Edmund to boarding school to get a better education.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Henry object to the whole notion of retirement?

2. How does Henry reply when Sam asks him what his occupation is?

3. What is Transcendentalism?

4. After telling Ellen about Transcendentalism, what does he invite her to do?

5. What happens to the man, in Waldo's story, who goes to India to earn a fortune, so he can retire a poet?

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