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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the old man who enters with his wife?
(a) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(b) Henry David Thoreau.
(c) John Thoreau.
(d) Edward Emerson.

2. 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) The people outside.
(c) The jailer.
(d) Bailey, his cellmate.

3. What does Ellen wish about Henry?
(a) She wishes Henry had proposed instead of John.
(b) She wishes Henry would help John get over her.
(c) She wishes Henry had not introduced her to John.
(d) She wishes Henry would have proposed so that she could refuse him also.

4. What do Henry and Bailey see outside the window of the cell?
(a) The constable.
(b) Their neighbors.
(c) The keys.
(d) A drunk staggering around.

5. Why does Henry note that it is good that men do not know how to fly?
(a) They would dive to earth.
(b) They would hurt the birds in the sky.
(c) They would run into one another in the air.
(d) If they did they would damage and dirty the clouds and the air.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose nightmare of Henry being arrested has come true?

2. What does Henry attempt to explain to Ellen?

3. Ellen says that she has to go home, and Henry delays. Why?

4. What does Henry point out to Bailey about doing what is expected of you?

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

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