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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 Henry's response when Ellen asks what will happen to the school now that there are no students?
(a) He says they will close and he will have to go back to teaching at a university.
(b) He will find new students.
(c) He will be the student and will learn from nature.
(d) He will change the way the school is run to keep students.

2. Who is the old man who enters with his wife?
(a) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(b) John Thoreau.
(c) Henry David Thoreau.
(d) Edward Emerson.

3. John's cheering of Henry leads to what inspiration?
(a) Henry quitting his job.
(b) Henry proposes they start their own school.
(c) Henry moving away from Walden Pond.
(d) Henry proposing they protest the Mexican War.

4. What does Ellen wish about Henry?
(a) She wishes Henry had proposed instead of John.
(b) She wishes Henry had not introduced her to John.
(c) She wishes Henry would have proposed so that she could refuse him also.
(d) She wishes Henry would help John get over her.

5. What does Ball threaten to do to Henry?
(a) Report him to the School Committee.
(b) Reprimand him.
(c) Fire him.
(d) Cancel his courses.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Deacon Ball, the Chair of the Concord School Committee, shocked at what Henry has been discussing with his class?

2. What occupation does Sam mark?

3. What does Henry then urge all his students not to do but to savor their sensations of the world?

4. What does Henry tell Waldo and Lydian about what must be done?

5. What is Henry's advice when Bailey says he cannot swim?

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