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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Henry returns to his jail cell. What is Bailey happily doing?
(a) Reading a book.
(b) Practicing writing his name.
(c) Talking to Sam.
(d) Dreaming.

3. What does Henry note that people must do, regarding books?
(a) Write books.
(b) Read as many books as possible.
(c) Be picky when choosing a book to read.
(d) Find books instead of the other way around.

4. Waldo, who is clearly quite old, is losing his senses, mistakes what for a person?
(a) His overcoat.
(b) A shadow.
(c) His umbrella.
(d) A post.

5. 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) Matters of theology should be left to religious leaders.
(c) There are girls in the course.
(d) The students do not address him as "Sir."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Henry point out to Bailey about doing what is expected of you?

2. Henry sits up on his cot, and what is his response to his mother's question?

3. After telling Ellen about Transcendentalism, what does he invite her to do?

4. Where does Henry live?

5. How does Ellen find Transcendentalism?

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