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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Henry applying for work as a repair person?
(a) He loves to repair machinery.
(b) He wants to help the Emersons.
(c) He likes to work with his hands.
(d) He wants to stop thinking.

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

3. What words of Waldo's does Henry repeat like a mantra?
(a) "Follow your own path."
(b) "Follow the yellow brick road."
(c) "Be free to be yourself."
(d) "Cast conformity behind you."

4. What has Ellen's father done, regarding her little brother, Edmund?
(a) He is sending Edmund to boarding school to get a better education.
(b) He has withdrawn Edmund from the school because he does not approve of Transcendentalism.
(c) he has withdrawn Edmund from the school because he does not care for Henry.
(d) He has enterd Edmund into the school because he is a Transcedentalist.

5. Mother again laments Henry's strangeness, and what does she hope?
(a) He will not become more strange.
(b) John will turn out not to be strange as well.
(c) Henry's children will not be strange.
(d) He will straighten out.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ball threaten to do to Henry?

2. Henry tells John that college was a waste of time except for what?

3. Why does Henry urge Bailey to remain uneducated?

4. Henry agrees to take her to shore if she will do what?

5. Why does Henry say that he cannot pray for John's soul?

(see the answer key)

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