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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 29-32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Section 9 begins with a description of the big doors of what building standing open?
(a) “The country barn.”
(b) “The fire house.”
(c) “The warehouse.”
(d) “The airplane hanger.”

2. Section 17 ends with the line, “This is the common air that bathes” what?
(a) “The body.”
(b) “The globe.”
(c) “The country.”
(d) “The county.”

3. The narrator asserts in Section 21, “I am not the poet of goodness only, I do not decline to be the poet of” what also?
(a) “Wickedness.”
(b) “Destruction.”
(c) “Deceit.”
(d) “Lies.”

4. From where does the narrator describe following the movements of the men with sledges and hammers in the end of Section 12?
(a) “The freeway terminal.”
(b) “The cinder-strew’d threshold.”
(c) “The wrecking yard.”
(d) “The mountain-cliff dwelling.”

5. Whose proper name is stated in the poem in the beginning of Section 24?
(a) Teddy Roosevelt's.
(b) Walt Whitman’s.
(c) William Shakespeare’s.
(d) John Muir's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Section 5 refers to a beam fastened to the keel of a vessel for strength?

2. The narrator claims in Section 32, “I think I could turn and live with animals, they’re so placid and” what?

3. To what does the narrator say “the other I am not must not abase itself to you” in Section 5?

4. What does the narrator say that seeing “at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books” in Section 24?

5. In the opening of Section 20, the narrator says, “Who goes there? Hankering, gross, mystical” and what?

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