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Act 1

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

2. In what town is the play set?
(a) East Hampton, New York.
(b) Boston, Massachusetts.
(c) Concord, Massachusetts.
(d) Providence, Rhode Island.

3. Why is the lighting on the empty areas of the set weak?
(a) To suggest a dream.
(b) To suggest old age.
(c) To suggest winter.
(d) The lights are broken.

4. Who is the old man who enters with his wife?
(a) Edward Emerson.
(b) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(c) John Thoreau.
(d) Henry David Thoreau.

5. In another area of the stage, Henry's mother is visibly upset. What does she ask Henry?
(a) Where his father is.
(b) What he has done.
(c) What has happened to John.
(d) Who is with him.

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

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