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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ellen says that she has to go home, and Henry delays. Why?
(a) He is afraid of her father.
(b) He has trouble rowing the boat.
(c) He wants to tell her about John.
(d) He finally tells her that he loves her.

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

3. What is Henry's response when Ellen asks what will happen to the school now that there are no students?
(a) He will be the student and will learn from nature.
(b) He will find new students.
(c) He says they will close and he will have to go back to teaching at a university.
(d) He will change the way the school is run to keep students.

4. Who is the old man who enters with his wife?
(a) Henry David Thoreau.
(b) Edward Emerson.
(c) John Thoreau.
(d) Ralph Waldo Emerson.

5. What happens to the man, in Waldo's story, who goes to India to earn a fortune, so he can retire a poet?
(a) He never earns a fortune.
(b) He dies wealthy and a poet.
(c) He dies with a huge fortune and no poems.
(d) He dies on his way to India.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the townsfolk look strangely at Henry?

2. Who are the only people married in John and Henry's family?

3. What does Henry notice about Ellen?

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

5. What does Waldo tell Lydian will be interesting?

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