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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Bailey feeling about his trial?
(a) He is fairly calm.
(b) He is a little worried.
(c) He is clearly panicked.
(d) He is confident in his aquittal.

2. What does Henry say Waldo should use to effect change?
(a) A change in philosophy.
(b) His wonderful manner of speaking.
(c) His fame and influence.
(d) His wife's influence.

3. What does Henry assure Williams?
(a) He will not get captured.
(b) He is still a slave.
(c) He is free.
(d) He may stay at Walden Pond.

4. Waldo, who is clearly quite old, is losing his senses, mistakes what for a person?
(a) His umbrella.
(b) His overcoat.
(c) A post.
(d) A shadow.

5. What is Transcendentalism?
(a) A Christian denomination, similar to the Methodist faith.
(b) A way of traveling from one continent to another.
(c) A person's thoughts or emotions that transcend or rise above their external perceptions.
(d) The belief in karma, nirvana, and reincarnation.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Ball becomes a general, and urges them all to do what?

3. Who does Waldo say "were trying to buy popularity?"

4. Why does Henry offer to work for 10 cents a week?

5. Of what does Henry accuse Waldo, regarding Williams?

(see the answer key)

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