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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The poet says in Section 44, “I am an acme of things accomplish’d, and I am an enclose of” what?
(a) “Things to be.”
(b) “The impossible.”
(c) “Things remembered.”
(d) “Things forgotten.”

2. The narrator contends that he is the teacher of what, in the opening of Section 47?
(a) Historians.
(b) Athletes.
(c) Scientists.
(d) Teachers.

3. The poet asks the reader in the opening of Section 35, “Would you hear of an old-time” what?
(a) “Land fight?”
(b) “Sky-fight?”
(c) “Sea-fight?”
(d) “Swamp fight?”

4. The poet describes outbidding what “old cautious” characters in Section 41?
(a) Scuttlers.
(b) Hucksters.
(c) Visionaries.
(d) Sailors.

5. The narrator tells “the tale of the murder in cold blood of” how many young men in Section 34?
(a) 194.
(b) 363.
(c) 277.
(d) 412.

Short Answer Questions

1. Section 45 begins, “O span of youth! Ever-push’d” what?

2. What “is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels,” in Section 31?

3. What adjective describes the city’s houses in the beginning of Section 33?

4. The poet asserts in Section 25, “Come now I will not be tantalized, you conceive too much of” what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What conclusions does the poet reach in Section 31?

2. What reaction does the poet have to his circumstances in the opening of Section 38?

3. What is the purpose of the religious allusion in Sections 41 and 42 of the poem?

4. Which of the five senses is introduced in Section 27? What animal is cited in this section?

5. What does the poet tell the world’s “priests” in Section 43?

6. What is the central message in Section 29 of the poem?

7. How are time and eternity defined in Section 44 of the poem?

8. How are “youth” and “age” described in Section 45?

9. To what are flames compared in Section 28? Why?

10. With what “characters” does the poet relate in Sections 47 and 48 of the poem?

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