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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 37-40.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The poet says in Section 40, “To cotton-field drudge or” whom does he lean?
(a) “Gutter of fish.”
(b) “Fixer of tractors.”
(c) “Cleaner of privies.”
(d) “Birther of animals.”

2. The narrator claims in Section 73, “Not a youngster is taken for” what, “but I go up too, and am tried and sentenced”?
(a) “Adultery.”
(b) “Bigotry.”
(c) “Larceny.”
(d) “Heresy.”

3. Who “sets traps on the creek that helps fill the Huron” in Section 15?
(a) The Badger.
(b) The Beaver.
(c) The Wolf.
(d) The Wolverine.

4. Who “shoulder their carbines and keep watch,” according to the poet in Section 37?
(a) “The sentries.”
(b) “The keepers of convicts.”
(c) “The armed guards.”
(d) “The housewives.”

5. The poet announces in Section 40, “To any one dying, thither I speed and twist” what?
(a) “The hand of the attic.”
(b) “The knife in the wound.”
(c) “The knob of the door.”
(d) “The sword in the cloud.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What color, in addition to green, is considered the “tufted crown intentional” by the narrator in Section 13?

2. The narrator says in Section 40, “I seize the descending man and raise him with resistless will, O despairer, here is my” what?

3. The narrator says in Section 14, “The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred” what?

4. The narrator says in Section 13 to not call what creature “unworthy because she is not something else”?

5. What does the narrator call those on guard when he tells them to “Look to your arms!” in Section 37?

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