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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Waldo tell Lydian will be interesting?
(a) Having an odd repairperson.
(b) Having a Transcendentalist repairperson.
(c) Having a Harvard-educated repairperson.
(d) Having a outspoken repairperson.

2. What does Henry tell Bailey he drinks?
(a) Juice and gets drunk from the wilderness.
(b) Water and gets drunk on love.
(c) The air and gets drunk from nature.
(d) Milk and gets drunk on exercising.

3. John's cheering of Henry leads to what inspiration?
(a) Henry quitting his job.
(b) Henry moving away from Walden Pond.
(c) Henry proposing they protest the Mexican War.
(d) Henry proposes they start their own school.

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

5. How does Waldo find out about Henry's arrest?
(a) Waldo hears the news from a neighbor.
(b) Waldo wonders where Henry is and ends up at the jail.
(c) Lydian hears it at the market and tells Waldo.
(d) Lydian brings Waldo a note.

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

7. What does Henry note that people must do, regarding books?
(a) Find books instead of the other way around.
(b) Be picky when choosing a book to read.
(c) Write books.
(d) Read as many books as possible.

8. Why does Henry offer to work for 10 cents a week?
(a) He knows the Emerson's do not have a lot of money.
(b) He will work for room and board.
(c) Without a salary, he will be free of obligations.
(d) He does not need any money.

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

10. Henry notes that he can feel the sound waves from the clock tower. Who does he say he is freer in jail than?
(a) Bailey, his cellmate.
(b) The people outside.
(c) The jailer.
(d) The birds on the clock tower.

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

12. Henry sits up on his cot, and what is his response to his mother's question?
(a) There is "not someone" with him.
(b) He does not know what happened to John.
(c) He has "not done something."
(d) His father is dead.

13. Who does Waldo say "were trying to buy popularity?"
(a) Roman emperors.
(b) His students.
(c) College professors.
(d) The members of his congregation.

14. What does Henry tell Waldo and Lydian about what must be done?
(a) Let him know what they need.
(b) The things that need doing will tell him about it.
(c) He will only do certain things.
(d) They need to give him a list.

15. When Waldo offers money, how does Henry respond?
(a) He has already been paid by being able to listen to his mentor's lectures.
(b) He wants to be paid in kind.
(c) He want to negotiate a salary.
(d) He readily accepts his offer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the townsfolk look strangely at Henry?

2. What word does Deacon Ball use incorrectly, which actually means forbidden?

3. How does Bailey feel about being in jail with Henry?

4. Why is Henry seized with a new feeling of love for Ellen?

5. What does Henry offer to Waldo and Lydian?

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