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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. To what does John attribute Henry's nonconformity?
(a) Henry's desire to be isolated.
(b) Henry's Harvard education.
(c) Henry's nature.
(d) Henry's private school education.

4. What does Henry then urge all his students not to do but to savor their sensations of the world?
(a) Listen to their parents.
(b) Stay inside buildings.
(c) Go to class.
(d) Emulate him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Mother again laments Henry's strangeness, and what does she hope?

2. How does Waldo find out about Henry's arrest?

3. Why does Ellen not marry John?

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. Why does Henry say that he cannot pray for John's soul?

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