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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Bailey feeling about his trial?
(a) He is fairly calm.
(b) He is confident in his aquittal.
(c) He is clearly panicked.
(d) He is a little worried.

2. Why do the townsfolk look strangely at Henry?
(a) Henry is sneaking around in the dark.
(b) Henry takes off one shoe.
(c) Henry is arguing with the constable.
(d) Henry is stumbling around.

3. Why is Henry seized with a new feeling of love for Ellen?
(a) She comforts him.
(b) She actually understands Transcendentalism
(c) She weeps over John's coffin.
(d) She says she loves him.

4. What happens to the man, in Waldo's story, who goes to India to earn a fortune, so he can retire a poet?
(a) He never earns a fortune.
(b) He dies with a huge fortune and no poems.
(c) He dies on his way to India.
(d) He dies wealthy and a poet.

5. What does Waldo ask after he accuses Henry of resigning from the human race?
(a) What would happen if everyone did so?
(b) Why do not more people listen to you?
(c) How can I join you?
(d) Where do you find such inspiration?

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Henry tell Waldo that he has to do, besides cast a vote in an election?

2. Why does Henry offer to work for 10 cents a week?

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

4. Henry and his mother keep talking, and she tells him she does not know who he is. How does he reply?

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

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