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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Waldo tell Lydian will be interesting?
(a) Having a Transcendentalist repairperson.
(b) Having a Harvard-educated repairperson.
(c) Having an odd repairperson.
(d) Having a outspoken repairperson.

2. When Waldo offers money, how does Henry respond?
(a) He has already been paid by being able to listen to his mentor's lectures.
(b) He readily accepts his offer.
(c) He want to negotiate a salary.
(d) He wants to be paid in kind.

3. How does Ellen find Transcendentalism?
(a) Nice.
(b) Sneaky.
(c) Evil.
(d) Scary.

4. Why is Deacon Ball, the Chair of the Concord School Committee, shocked at what Henry has been discussing with his class?
(a) He is not following the curriculum.
(b) The students do not address him as "Sir."
(c) There are girls in the course.
(d) Matters of theology should be left to religious leaders.

5. What does Henry then urge all his students not to do but to savor their sensations of the world?
(a) Stay inside buildings.
(b) Emulate him.
(c) Go to class.
(d) Listen to their parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ball tells Henry that they have been feeding their souls. How does Henry reply?

2. How does Bailey respond when Henry asks him about marriage?

3. What similarity between Henry and Waldo do John and Mother note?

4. Why is Bailey in jail?

5. Why does Henry not hug Ellen?

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