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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 41-44.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does the poet describe as “a word of the modern” in Section 23?
(a) “Weaponry.”
(b) “Atomic bomb.”
(c) “En-Masse.”
(d) “Tribulation.”

2. To whom does the narrator say the sentries have left him helpless in Section 28?
(a) “A red marauder.”
(b) “The devil.”
(c) “God.”
(d) “A cutthroat gambler.”

3. The narrator compares months to what in Section 20?
(a) Earthquakes.
(b) Oceans.
(c) Canyons.
(d) Vacuums.

4. What Norse god does Whitman describe in Section 41?
(a) Odin.
(b) Osiris.
(c) Belus.
(d) Brahma.

5. With whom does the narrator describe spending “that day round the chowder-kettle” in Section 10?
(a) Bankers and businessmen.
(b) Farmers and ranchers.
(c) Boatsmen and clam-diggers.
(d) Drunks and criminals.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is described as the grandson of Kronos in Section 41?

3. The narrator exclaims in Section 18, “Vivas to those who have” what?

4. What color shirt is “the negro” wearing in Section 13?

5. 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?

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