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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Henry say that he cannot pray for John's soul?
(a) He cannot pray to a God that does not listen.
(b) He does not believe John's soul is in heaven.
(c) He does not believe in God.
(d) He is angry with God for taking his brother.

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

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

4. John's cheering of Henry leads to what inspiration?
(a) Henry quitting his job.
(b) Henry moving away from Walden Pond.
(c) Henry proposes they start their own school.
(d) Henry proposing they protest the Mexican War.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what do John and Henry then agree?

2. Why is Bailey in jail?

3. Henry replies that he likes the way the alphabet sounds and feels when read backwards. Why does he think that things should be mixed up?

4. Whose nightmare of Henry being arrested has come true?

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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