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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ball notes that it is a sin to work on Sundays, and what does John note about Henry?
(a) God would not mind Henry's work.
(b) He worships in nature.
(c) He does not consider gardening to be work.
(d) He is a sinner.

2. Bailey is impressed and observes that Henry must be a teacher. Why is Bailey impressed with Henry?
(a) Henry teaches him how to play the flute.
(b) Henry teaches him mathematics.
(c) Henry teaches him how to read and write his name.
(d) Henry teaches him about Transcendentalism.

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

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) Matters of theology should be left to religious leaders.
(d) There are girls in the course.

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

6. What occupation does Sam mark?
(a) Carpenter.
(b) Tutor.
(c) Writer.
(d) Principal.

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(a) he has withdrawn Edmund from the school because he does not care for Henry.
(b) He has withdrawn Edmund from the school because he does not approve of Transcendentalism.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

8. What do both Henry and Waldo do simultaneously?
(a) Henry tells his students he must follow the curriculum, as Waldo tells the congregation he will preach to the Unitarian principles.
(b) Henry teaches new courses and Waldo speaks at a different Unitarian Church.
(c) Henry argues with Ball, as Waldo argues with his wife.
(d) Henry resigns from teaching, as Waldo resigns as a Unitarian Minister.

9. What becomes clear about Ellen and her father?
(a) They are very close.
(b) They are both Transcendentalists.
(c) Neither really understand Transcendentalism.
(d) They do not agree on how Edmund should be raised.

10. Why does Henry object to the whole notion of retirement?
(a) People do not take as many years of retirement.
(b) He does not want to think about growing old.
(c) He is a workaholic.
(d) People work during the best part of their lives so they can relax during their declining years.

11. What does Henry tell Bailey he drinks?
(a) The air and gets drunk from nature.
(b) Milk and gets drunk on exercising.
(c) Water and gets drunk on love.
(d) Juice and gets drunk from the wilderness.

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

13. Why does Henry not hug Ellen?
(a) He is embarrassed.
(b) He is afraid she will cringe.
(c) Out of a sense of propriety.
(d) He does not like her.

14. Henry sits up on his cot, and what is his response to his mother's question?
(a) He does not know what happened to John.
(b) His father is dead.
(c) There is "not someone" with him.
(d) He has "not done something."

15. Why will Henry not pay his taxes?
(a) Taxes do not help the people.
(b) The government is corrupt.
(c) He hates paying taxes.
(d) He does not have the money.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ellen wish about Henry?

3. In what town is the play set?

4. What does Henry attempt to explain to Ellen?

5. On what do John and Henry then agree?

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