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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As a child what does Henry find berry picking better than?
(a) Staying in the house.
(b) Playing with his brother.
(c) Going to school.
(d) Just eating the pudding his mother made from them.

2. What becomes clear about Ellen and her father?
(a) They are both Transcendentalists.
(b) Neither really understand Transcendentalism.
(c) They are very close.
(d) They do not agree on how Edmund should be raised.

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 wealthy and a poet.
(b) He dies with a huge fortune and no poems.
(c) He never earns a fortune.
(d) He dies on his way to India.

4. Why does Henry not hug Ellen?
(a) He does not like her.
(b) He is afraid she will cringe.
(c) He is embarrassed.
(d) Out of a sense of propriety.

5. Henry tells Sam he will not pay for the war in Mexico. Why?
(a) To do so would make him a murderer.
(b) He likes Mexico.
(c) He does not like taxes.
(d) He does not have the money.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does John attribute Henry's nonconformity?

2. Sam brings him breakfast, and tells Henry what?

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

4. What does Waldo ask after he accuses Henry of resigning from the human race?

5. What does Henry tell Waldo that he has to do, besides cast a vote in an election?

(see the answer key)

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