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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Henry recognizes about his devotion to Waldo?
(a) It has made a solid friendship.
(b) It has helped shape his own beliefs.
(c) It has given him the strength to fight injustice.
(d) It has stripped away some of his self.

2. About what is Henry's soliloquy?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Loss.
(c) Love.
(d) Freedom.

3. What does Lydian say while insisting to Henry what he must do?
(a) "A wife is a treasure!"
(b) "To get along, you have to go along!"
(c) "Allow your heart to lead the way!"
(d) "To forgive, means to forget!"

4. Waldo asks whether he should start a violent rebellion. How does Henry reply?
(a) He insists violence is not always the answer.
(b) He insists Waldo start a war.
(c) He insists Waldo should stop violence.
(d) He insists violence is the only solution.

5. How does Henry describe berry picking?
(a) Berry berry, quite contrary.
(b) Berry patch hunting.
(c) Huckleberry Finn hunting.
(d) Huckleberry hunting.

6. What choice is Henry describing to Bailey?
(a) The choice to listen to those around him or follow his heart.
(b) The choice to stay in jail or attempt a mistake.
(c) The choice he has made between paying his taxes and asserting his independence.
(d) The choice to marry Ellen or allow his brother to.

7. Sam brings him breakfast, and tells Henry what?
(a) The telegraph line to Texas has been finished.
(b) The war in Mexico has ended.
(c) The war in Mexico has begun.
(d) Henry's mother will bail him out.

8. What does Henry believe is the motivation for the war in Mexico?
(a) A desire for more land for Southern slave owners.
(b) Money and power.
(c) Love for the United States and the desire to spread freedom.
(d) Control over other countries.

9. Sam says he cannot make that happen. What does Henry do?
(a) He leaves.
(b) He locks his cell door.
(c) He lies on his cot to wait.
(d) He holds onto Bailey.

10. What does Henry suggest to Bailey?
(a) He is born in a more liberal age, or that he try prayer.
(b) Make a run for it.
(c) Find someone who cares.
(d) Sell your soul to the devil, then you will have a good lawyer.

11. How is Bailey feeling about his trial?
(a) He is clearly panicked.
(b) He is confident in his aquittal.
(c) He is fairly calm.
(d) He is a little worried.

12. What happens as Williams darts offstage?
(a) He is shot.
(b) He is followed by racist epithets.
(c) He says he's running to Walden Pond.
(d) He begins shooting his rifle.

13. What does Lydian suggest that Henry do while Waldo is away in England?
(a) Get another job.
(b) Find a wife.
(c) Stay with them.
(d) He should leave.

14. What does Edward do as he gives his mother the berries?
(a) Tells her that he loves berries.
(b) Tells her to make a pie.
(c) Tells her that he wants Henry to be his father.
(d) Tells her how wonderful his day was.

15. What does the lighting in this jail cell scene make clear through its frightening blasts of red and other psychedelic colors?
(a) This is the devil's lair.
(b) This is a tornado.
(c) This is a dream.
(d) This is a fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. The war resumes in full speed with what?

2. How does Henry respond when Williams asks why he lives in slave-like poverty?

3. What has brought violence to Concord?

4. What does Henry assure Williams?

5. Why does Henry make up a poem/prayer for Bailey?

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