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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the only people married in John and Henry's family?
(a) Their parents and older brother.
(b) Their father and mother.
(c) Their parents and aunt.
(d) Their parents and uncle.

2. Sam notes that he does not like having to serve Henry with the bill. What does Henry urge him to do?
(a) Put himself in jail.
(b) Serve him the bill.
(c) Not to serve him the bill.
(d) Quit as constable.

3. What does Ellen wish about Henry?
(a) She wishes Henry would help John get over her.
(b) She wishes Henry had not introduced her to John.
(c) She wishes Henry had proposed instead of John.
(d) She wishes Henry would have proposed so that she could refuse him also.

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

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 brings Waldo a note.
(d) Lydian hears it at the market and tells Waldo.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does Henry invite Ellen?

2. What has Ellen's father done, regarding her little brother, Edmund?

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

4. Mother again laments Henry's strangeness, and what does she hope?

5. Why does Henry not hug Ellen?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the set for this play?

2. How does Henry show that he cares about his brother and his brother's feelings?

3. What is Deacon Ball's reaction to Henry's class discussion?

4. How does Henry show affection for Lydian? What is her response?

5. How is Waldo's dream created on the stage?

6. What is the story Henry tells about the character Williams?

7. What does Henry tell Bailey about his home?

8. What do Henry and Bailey see out the cell window?

9. What does Henry say to Ellen, showing the audience that he likes her?

10. How are Henry's Sunday rituals very different from many in town?

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