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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is happening to Henry in this scene?
(a) He and Bailey are caught in a fire.
(b) He is caught in the tornado.
(c) His nightmare of the war is being enacted.
(d) He has sold his soul to the devil.

2. What is Henry doing when Williams, an escaped slave, appears?
(a) Weeding.
(b) Planting in his garden.
(c) Swimming.
(d) Playing a flute.

3. Sam brings him breakfast, and tells Henry what?
(a) The war in Mexico has ended.
(b) The war in Mexico has begun.
(c) Henry's mother will bail him out.
(d) The telegraph line to Texas has been finished.

4. What happens when Henry urges him to run away?
(a) He refuses to leave, so he may fight in the battle.
(b) He refuses to leave Henry.
(c) All the soldiers start to shoot at him.
(d) He hides.

5. How does Henry react when Waldo tells him they need to work within the laws to fight the war?
(a) He is shocked to hear Waldo say this.
(b) He agrees and changes his actions.
(c) He and Waldo begin a plan to fight the war in a more legal way.
(d) He is disgusted and goes to leave.

6. What does Sergeant Sam urge the troops to do?
(a) Run for their lives.
(b) Build a trench.
(c) Duck and cover.
(d) Form a line and start firing.

7. When Henry refuses to assault the enemy, how does his mother respond?
(a) She cries.
(b) She praises him.
(c) She argues with him.
(d) She berates him.

8. What does the lighting in this jail cell scene make clear through its frightening blasts of red and other psychedelic colors?
(a) This is the devil's lair.
(b) This is a fire.
(c) This is a dream.
(d) This is a tornado.

9. Ball becomes a general, and urges them all to do what?
(a) Get into line.
(b) Fire.
(c) Learn how to kill.
(d) Choose a weapon.

10. Waldo asks whether he should start a violent rebellion. How does Henry reply?
(a) He insists Waldo start a war.
(b) He insists Waldo should stop violence.
(c) He insists violence is not always the answer.
(d) He insists violence is the only solution.

11. Where does Henry advice him to go?
(a) Canada.
(b) Concord.
(c) Quebec.
(d) New York.

12. Lydian accuses him of trying to make Waldo something he is not, and urges Henry to do what?
(a) Get married.
(b) Let Waldo be himself.
(c) End his friendship with Waldo.
(d) Leave town.

13. What pleases Henry about Williams?
(a) Williams will be staying at Walden Pond to help him.
(b) Williams is going back into slavery.
(c) Williams is a kind man.
(d) Williams tells him of his desire to escape slavery.

14. What does Williams want to call himself?
(a) Williams at Waldon Pond.
(b) Mr. Henry's Slave Williams.
(c) Walden's Williams.
(d) Mr. Henry's Williams.

15. With what does Henry tell Bailey he prays?
(a) A flute.
(b) The water.
(c) Nature.
(d) A Bible.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what is Williams worried?

2. To what are men slaves, according to Henry?

3. How do the stage directions describe Henry's discussion of Waldo' virtues?

4. Sergeant Sam wakes the sleeping Henry and gives him what?

5. When does all action on stage stop?

(see the answer keys)

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