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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Henry discover as he is busily pointing out different species of grass?
(a) A species he has not seen in the area.
(b) A beautiful flower.
(c) An ant hill.
(d) A new species of bee.

2. How does Ellen find Transcendentalism?
(a) Evil.
(b) Scary.
(c) Sneaky.
(d) Nice.

3. What does Waldo tell Lydian will be interesting?
(a) Having an odd repairperson.
(b) Having a outspoken repairperson.
(c) Having a Transcendentalist repairperson.
(d) Having a Harvard-educated repairperson.

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

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

6. What is Transcendentalism?
(a) The belief in karma, nirvana, and reincarnation.
(b) A way of traveling from one continent to another.
(c) A person's thoughts or emotions that transcend or rise above their external perceptions.
(d) A Christian denomination, similar to the Methodist faith.

7. Why is Bailey in jail?
(a) Burning down a barn.
(b) Murdering his neighbor.
(c) Breaking and entering.
(d) Robbing a store.

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

9. How does Waldo respond when Ball asks him about listening to another clergyman?
(a) He tends to fall asleep.
(b) He is always glad when the sermon is over.
(c) He becomes nervous.
(d) He gets good sermon ideas from other clergymen.

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

11. Upon what does Henry lament, regarding the environment?
(a) He would like to live in a more tropical environment.
(b) Concord is too wild for his taste.
(c) The fact that humanity has done so much damage to the environment.
(d) There are too many biting insects.

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

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

14. Why does Henry note that it is good that men do not know how to fly?
(a) They would run into one another in the air.
(b) They would hurt the birds in the sky.
(c) They would dive to earth.
(d) If they did they would damage and dirty the clouds and the air.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Henry do when he catches Ellen writing notes once again?

2. What word does Deacon Ball use incorrectly, which actually means forbidden?

3. For what does Henry propose to work?

4. Who does Waldo say "were trying to buy popularity?"

5. What does Henry attempt to explain to Ellen?

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