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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Henry feel when he shouts with no response and tries to ring the bell, but no sound emerges?
(a) He feels discouraged and powerless.
(b) He feels somewhat relieved.
(c) He feels frustrated, yet determined.
(d) He feels confused and unsure.

2. Where must Waldo go to speak out against injustice?
(a) In his own heart.
(b) At the courthouse.
(c) Out of his comfort zone.
(d) In Washington, D.C.

3. Edward is so pleased. What does he wish?
(a) John was his father.
(b) John was his brother.
(c) Henry was his brother.
(d) Henry was his father.

4. How does Henry respond when Williams asks why he lives in slave-like poverty?
(a) He loves the whimsy of the outdoors and chose to marry it.
(b) He has no money for a nicer home.
(c) He has chosen to live outside of society and has married his bean patch.
(d) He inherited the property from his father.

5. Who does Bailey ask to be his lawyer?
(a) Sam.
(b) Edward.
(c) Waldo.
(d) Henry.

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

7. When does all action on stage stop?
(a) When Edward is shot.
(b) When John is shot.
(c) When Henry yells for the war to end.
(d) An unseen voice addresses Congress and urges the President to stop the war.

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 a fire.
(b) This is a dream.
(c) This is a tornado.
(d) This is the devil's lair.

9. Why does Henry object violently to this name?
(a) Williams may not stay at Walden.
(b) Henry tells him to never describe himself as a possession.
(c) Williams is not his slave.
(d) Williams has to move on to his own home.

10. About what is Henry's soliloquy?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Loss.
(d) Love.

11. What does the audience learn about Williams once he leaves Walden Pond?
(a) He has been shot at the border.
(b) He lives in Canada.
(c) He is sent back into slavery.
(d) He is a free man in New York.

12. What does Henry think about lawyers?
(a) They are devils.
(b) They are sneaky.
(c) They are mandatory for someone in jail.
(d) They can useful.

13. What happens to Edward during this scene?
(a) He calls for his father.
(b) He shoots Williams.
(c) He falls wounded.
(d) He finds a berry patch.

14. After Henry deals with the chicken problem, how does Lydian respond to this gesture?
(a) She urges him to get married.
(b) She is embarrassed.
(c) She hugs him.
(d) She urges him to stay with them.

15. Why is Henry disappointed in Emerson?
(a) His idol fights for freedom but believes in slavery.
(b) His idol does not want everyone to be free.
(c) His idol has not taken a stand in the battle against slavery.
(d) His idol does not stand for the same beliefs as him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Williams do when he sees Henry?

2. How does the scene restart?

3. Henry praises the speaker, and calls him by what name?

4. Why can Henry not choose any of the young women Lydian suggests?

5. With what does Henry tell Bailey he prays?

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