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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What similarity between Henry and Waldo do John and Mother note?
(a) Waldo and Henry's personalites.
(b) Waldo and Henry's speeches.
(c) Waldo and Henry's irritability.
(d) Waldo and Henry's looks.

2. Why does Ellen not marry John?
(a) She is too young.
(b) Her father objects.
(c) She does not love him.
(d) She loves Henry.

3. How does Bailey respond when Henry asks him about marriage?
(a) He cries.
(b) He laughs.
(c) He gives a shout of joy.
(d) He gives a derisive snort.

4. What does Henry notice about Ellen?
(a) She is younger than any of the other students.
(b) She is beautiful.
(c) She is staring at him.
(d) She is an older girl and is taking notes.

5. What does Henry then urge all his students not to do but to savor their sensations of the world?
(a) Listen to their parents.
(b) Go to class.
(c) Emulate him.
(d) Stay inside buildings.

6. Henry tells John that college was a waste of time except for what?
(a) Lunch.
(b) The lab courses.
(c) The weekends.
(d) Waldo's lectures.

7. What word does Deacon Ball use incorrectly, which actually means forbidden?
(a) Prisribed.
(b) Penscribed.
(c) Perscribed.
(d) Proscribed.

8. 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 jailer.
(b) The birds on the clock tower.
(c) The people outside.
(d) Bailey, his cellmate.

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

10. Henry agrees to take her to shore if she will do what?
(a) Marry John.
(b) Go to church with John.
(c) Marry him.
(d) Go to church with him.

11. Why is Henry visibly frustrated with himself?
(a) His rowing scares Ellen.
(b) Ellen does not love John as he thought.
(c) Ellen rejects him.
(d) His intensity frightens Ellen away.

12. How does Henry reply when Sam asks him what his occupation is?
(a) Henry tells him he is a protester.
(b) Henry answers that he is a writer.
(c) Henry tells him he is a carpenter.
(d) Henry answers with several of the different jobs he has done.

13. To what does Henry compare time?
(a) To a road.
(b) To sand.
(c) To the sun.
(d) To a river.

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

15. To what does Henry compare Waldo lecturing?
(a) An old college professor.
(b) A Unitarian preacher.
(c) The President of the United States.
(d) A Roman emperor giving away gold coins

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Henry offer to Waldo and Lydian?

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

3. What is the setting for the beginning of the play?

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

5. For what does Henry propose to work?

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