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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why can Henry not choose any of the young women Lydian suggests?
(a) He already is married.
(b) Nature is his mother-in-law.
(c) He is not interested in any of them.
(d) He considers Lydian a wife.

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

3. As who does Waldo appear?
(a) A soldier.
(b) A Mexican soldier.
(c) The President.
(d) A General.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Ball notes that it is a sin to work on Sundays, and what does John note about Henry?

2. Edward is so pleased. What does he wish?

3. What advice does Henry give him when Waldo asks him what he thinks he should do?

4. What does Henry assure Williams?

5. The scene fades and Sam is doing what?

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