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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 9-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator claims in Section 7, “I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash’d babe, and am not contain’d between my” what?
(a) “Socks and belt.”
(b) “Tie and socks.”
(c) “Hat and boots.”
(d) “Belt and tie.”

2. What does the narrator say he does “alone far in the wilds and mountains” in Section 10?
(a) Fishes.
(b) Ponders.
(c) Prays.
(d) Hunts.

3. What is described in Section 8 as sprawled “on the bloody floor of the bedroom”?
(a) “A handkerchief.”
(b) “The model.”
(c) “The suicide.”
(d) “A murder victim.”

4. The narrator claims in Section 2 that the atmosphere “has no taste of” what?
(a) “The concentration.”
(b) “The reconciliation.”
(c) “The emancipation.”
(d) “The distillation.”

5. To what does the narrator say “the other I am not must not abase itself to you” in Section 5?
(a) “My intestines.”
(b) “My soul.”
(c) “My youth.”
(d) “My scalp.”

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does the narrator describe spending “that day round the chowder-kettle” in Section 10?

2. What does the narrator bring to the runaway slave when he encounters him in Section 10?

3. What does the butcher-boy put off, according to the narrator in Section 12?

4. The narrator makes a statement equating stoutness with what animal in Section 3?

5. The narrator says in Section 10 that while he wanders “alone in the wilds and mountains” he is amazed at his own what?

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