Heat Pumps and Electric Heating - Electric baseboard heater thermostat

Thanks for all the great help to date.

All is wireis run . The baseboard heater mounted. Circuit breaker in and so on.

I now just have to wire the thermostat. It's a honeywell thermostat made for electric heating. The instructions are a bit vague (who writes these??!!).

Does the thermostat wire like a wall switch? The black wires going to the two wires on the thermostat and the two white wires connected together with a wire nut?

Also, I'm curious about this. Baseboard heaters are wired in series. BUT. If you are going to have one heater on an opposite wall, can two baseboard heaters not be in series but both come off the same thermostat (the wires of both baseboard heaters go directly to the thermostat)?

thanks