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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the lighting show a new time period and a younger Waldo?
(a) The lighting on Waldo's side of the stage becomes more white.
(b) The lighting on Waldo's side of the stage shifts to a bright yellow.
(c) The lighting on Waldo's side of the stage shifts to a stronger hue.
(d) The lighting on Waldo's side of the stage becomes warmer.

2. What is the setting for the beginning of the play?
(a) Long Island Sound.
(b) A jail cell in the center of the stage.
(c) Walden Pond.
(d) A school.

3. Why is the lighting on the empty areas of the set weak?
(a) To suggest winter.
(b) The lights are broken.
(c) To suggest a dream.
(d) To suggest old age.

4. What is Henry's advice when Bailey says he cannot swim?
(a) Henry tells him not to struggle with the water.
(b) Henry tells him to plug his nose when he jumps in.
(c) Henry tells him to avoid the ocean.
(d) Henry tells him to take lessons.

5. 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.

6. What do both Henry and Waldo do simultaneously?
(a) Henry teaches new courses and Waldo speaks at a different Unitarian Church.
(b) Henry resigns from teaching, as Waldo resigns as a Unitarian Minister.
(c) Henry argues with Ball, as Waldo argues with his wife.
(d) Henry tells his students he must follow the curriculum, as Waldo tells the congregation he will preach to the Unitarian principles.

7. Henry returns to his jail cell. What is Bailey happily doing?
(a) Dreaming.
(b) Talking to Sam.
(c) Practicing writing his name.
(d) Reading a book.

8. Why does Henry make this agreement with Ellen before taking her to shore?
(a) He knows she loves him.
(b) He knows that John likes her very much.
(c) He knows she likes John.
(d) He loves her.

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

10. Bailey is impressed and observes that Henry must be a teacher. Why is Bailey impressed with Henry?
(a) Henry teaches him mathematics.
(b) Henry teaches him how to play the flute.
(c) Henry teaches him about Transcendentalism.
(d) Henry teaches him how to read and write his name.

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

12. Where does Henry live?
(a) By the ocean.
(b) On the beach.
(c) Downtown Concord.
(d) By Walden Pond.

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

14. Why does Ellen offer to leave?
(a) She has not paid tuition.
(b) She is failing the course.
(c) She is the only girl.
(d) Her father does not want her in the school.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ellen find Transcendentalism?

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

3. If more people were willing to go to jail to protest the government, they could effect change on what scale?

4. Why does Henry urge Bailey to remain uneducated?

5. Henry replies that he likes the way the alphabet sounds and feels when read backwards. Why does he think that things should be mixed up?

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