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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does Deacon Ball use incorrectly, which actually means forbidden?
(a) Proscribed.
(b) Penscribed.
(c) Prisribed.
(d) Perscribed.

2. Mother again laments Henry's strangeness, and what does she hope?
(a) John will turn out not to be strange as well.
(b) Henry's children will not be strange.
(c) He will straighten out.
(d) He will not become more strange.

3. 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 dies on his way to India.
(b) He never earns a fortune.
(c) He dies wealthy and a poet.
(d) He dies with a huge fortune and no poems.

4. 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.

5. Why is Henry visibly frustrated with himself?
(a) His intensity frightens Ellen away.
(b) Ellen rejects him.
(c) His rowing scares Ellen.
(d) Ellen does not love John as he thought.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Henry seized with a new feeling of love for Ellen?

2. What words of Waldo's does Henry repeat like a mantra?

3. What do Henry and Bailey see outside the window of the cell?

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

5. Why is Bailey in jail?

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