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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Henry say that he cannot pray for John's soul?
(a) He does not believe in God.
(b) He cannot pray to a God that does not listen.
(c) He does not believe John's soul is in heaven.
(d) He is angry with God for taking his brother.

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

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

5. Ball notes that it is a sin to work on Sundays, and what does John note about Henry?
(a) God would not mind Henry's work.
(b) He does not consider gardening to be work.
(c) He worships in nature.
(d) He is a sinner.

6. What does Henry offer to Waldo and Lydian?
(a) To make their home a green home.
(b) To be a tutor for their son.
(c) To clean their home for them.
(d) To babysit their son.

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

8. Why is Bailey in jail?
(a) Robbing a store.
(b) Burning down a barn.
(c) Murdering his neighbor.
(d) Breaking and entering.

9. Mother again laments Henry's strangeness, and what does she hope?
(a) He will not become more strange.
(b) Henry's children will not be strange.
(c) John will turn out not to be strange as well.
(d) He will straighten out.

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

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

12. What does Henry point out to Bailey about doing what is expected of you?
(a) It is the right thing to do.
(b) It will get you out of jail faster.
(c) It is safer.
(d) It can suffocate you.

13. How do John and Henry get on the topic of polygamy?
(a) They want many wives.
(b) John notes that Ellen would marry both of them.
(c) They both like Ellen.
(d) They are considering creating their own cult.

14. What has Ellen's father done, regarding her little brother, Edmund?
(a) he has withdrawn Edmund from the school because he does not care for Henry.
(b) He has withdrawn Edmund from the school because he does not approve of Transcendentalism.
(c) He is sending Edmund to boarding school to get a better education.
(d) He has enterd Edmund into the school because he is a Transcedentalist.

15. Who are the only people married in John and Henry's family?
(a) Their parents and older brother.
(b) Their parents and uncle.
(c) Their father and mother.
(d) Their parents and aunt.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Henry compare Waldo lecturing?

2. Where does Henry live?

3. How does Ellen find Transcendentalism?

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

5. How does Bailey respond when Henry asks him about marriage?

(see the answer keys)

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