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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Waldo say "were trying to buy popularity?"
(a) The members of his congregation.
(b) His students.
(c) Roman emperors.
(d) College professors.

2. When Waldo offers money, how does Henry respond?
(a) He want to negotiate a salary.
(b) He has already been paid by being able to listen to his mentor's lectures.
(c) He readily accepts his offer.
(d) He wants to be paid in kind.

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

4. Henry notes that he can feel the sound waves from the clock tower. Who does he say he is freer in jail than?
(a) The people outside.
(b) The birds on the clock tower.
(c) The jailer.
(d) Bailey, his cellmate.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. If more people were willing to go to jail to protest the government, they could effect change on what scale?

2. Henry notes that older people like her father are "polluted" by advice. How does he strongly urge Ellen to maintain her "innocence?"

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

4. Why does Henry object to the whole notion of retirement?

5. To what does Henry compare Waldo lecturing?

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