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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Henry mocks Ball by telling his students to prevent all their senses from experiencing life so that they can all focus solely on what?
(a) The books.
(b) Their teacher.
(c) College.
(d) School.

2. Why does Ellen offer to leave?
(a) She is failing the course.
(b) She has not paid tuition.
(c) Her father does not want her in the school.
(d) She is the only girl.

3. Why does Henry offer to work for 10 cents a week?
(a) He will work for room and board.
(b) Without a salary, he will be free of obligations.
(c) He does not need any money.
(d) He knows the Emerson's do not have a lot of money.

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

5. Ellen says that she has to go home, and Henry delays. Why?
(a) He finally tells her that he loves her.
(b) He is afraid of her father.
(c) He wants to tell her about John.
(d) He has trouble rowing the boat.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do John and Henry get on the topic of polygamy?

2. What happens to the man, in Waldo's story, who goes to India to earn a fortune, so he can retire a poet?

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

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

5. Whose nightmare of Henry being arrested has come true?

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