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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do John and Henry get on the topic of polygamy?
(a) They both like Ellen.
(b) John notes that Ellen would marry both of them.
(c) They want many wives.
(d) They are considering creating their own cult.

2. Henry agrees to take her to shore if she will do what?
(a) Marry John.
(b) Marry him.
(c) Go to church with him.
(d) Go to church with John.

3. 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) He worships in nature.
(c) God would not mind Henry's work.
(d) He is a sinner.

4. What similarity between Henry and Waldo do John and Mother note?
(a) Waldo and Henry's personalites.
(b) Waldo and Henry's speeches.
(c) Waldo and Henry's looks.
(d) Waldo and Henry's irritability.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Henry compare Waldo lecturing?

2. Why does Henry make this agreement with Ellen before taking her to shore?

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

4. What happens to the man, in Waldo's story, who goes to India to earn a fortune, so he can retire a poet?

5. Henry and his mother keep talking, and she tells him she does not know who he is. How does he reply?

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