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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 21-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What instruments does the narrator describe playing in the opening of Section 18?
(a) Flutes and whistles.
(b) Cornets and drums.
(c) Tubas and bass.
(d) Drums and piano.

3. The narrator compels the reader in Section 2 by stating, “Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess” what?
(a) “Belief in a higher power.”
(b) “All the secrets of nature.”
(c) “The origin of all poems.”
(d) “The keys to humanity.”

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 mountain-cliff dwelling.”
(c) “The wrecking yard.”
(d) “The cinder-strew’d threshold.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the poet describe the summer night in Section 21?

2. What word does the poet describe as “a word of the modern” in Section 23?

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

4. How many suns does the narrator claim there are left in Section 2?

5. The narrator asserts in Section 20, “In all people I see” what?

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