The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Test | Final Test - Easy

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The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Henry give Williams?
(a) Some bread.
(b) Chores.
(c) A bed.
(d) A book.

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

3. About what is Williams worried?
(a) Henry will not be his friend.
(b) Henry will kick him out.
(c) The authorities will catch him at Walden Pond.
(d) Henry will turn him in.

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

5. Besides suggesting that Henry would be a better father, what else does Edward suggest to his mother?
(a) Henry would help around the house.
(b) Henry could make repairs.
(c) Henry would be a better husband for her.
(d) Henry would be a better cook too.

6. When is there sexual tension between Lydian and Henry?
(a) When she sees the gift he made her.
(b) When Edward says he wants Henry to be is father.
(c) When she asks if he is lonely, he turns the question back on her.
(d) When Henry asks her to marry him.

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

8. Henry praises the speaker, and calls him by what name?
(a) Congressman Lincoln from Illinois.
(b) My son.
(c) My brother.
(d) President Polk.

9. What has Henry's Aunt Louisa done?
(a) Come to visit.
(b) Come to console Henry's mother.
(c) Told Sam to let Henry go.
(d) Paid his tax bill.

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

11. Henry objects to Waldo not appearing. How does Lydian feel?
(a) Torn between sharing Henry's opinions and loyalty to Waldo.
(b) Unsure whether she still loves Waldo or actually loves Henry.
(c) Reassured that Waldo is not changing his stand on freedom.
(d) Embarrassed by Waldo's cowardly actions.

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

13. What does Henry believe is the motivation for the war in Mexico?
(a) Control over other countries.
(b) Money and power.
(c) Love for the United States and the desire to spread freedom.
(d) A desire for more land for Southern slave owners.

14. What happens as Williams darts offstage?
(a) He is followed by racist epithets.
(b) He begins shooting his rifle.
(c) He is shot.
(d) He says he's running to Walden Pond.

15. What has Henry made for the chickens?
(a) A chicken coop, so they stay out of Lydian's roses.
(b) Gloves to keep them from scratching up Lydian's roses.
(c) A new nest for their eggs, so they do not roost in Lydian's roses.
(d) A place to be fed, so they stay out of Lydians's roses.

Short Answer Questions

1. As a child what does Henry find berry picking better than?

2. When Henry refuses to assault the enemy, how does his mother respond?

3. What does Henry think about lawyers?

4. What does Waldo ask after he accuses Henry of resigning from the human race?

5. When does Henry comfort Edward with the knowledge that he has now planted new Huckleberry plants?

(see the answer keys)

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