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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 37-40.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator states “Now I will do nothing but” what, in the opening of Section 26?
(a) “Wonder.”
(b) “Listen.”
(c) “Yell.”
(d) “Stare.”

2. The poet tells the dying in Section 40, “I dilate you with” what?
(a) “Lashing words.”
(b) “Extreme scorn.”
(c) “Piercing stare.”
(d) “Tremendous breath.”

3. The narrator claims in Section 15, “The married and unmarried children ride home to their” what?
(a) “Labor Day brunch.”
(b) “Christmas dinner.”
(c) “Thanksgiving dinner.”
(d) “Easter dinner.”

4. To what does the narrator say in Section 40, “You seem to look for something at my hands”?
(a) “Fire.”
(b) “Wind.”
(c) “Water.”
(d) “Earth.”

5. What are described as “making a rush for my veins” in Section 28?
(a) “Flames and ether.”
(b) “Curtains of gold.”
(c) “Chariots of fire.”
(d) “Winds of worry.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Who “shoulder their carbines and keep watch,” according to the poet in Section 37?

2. Where does the narrator say the “sharp-hoof’d moose” comes from in Section 14?

3. The narrator claims in Section 73, “Not a youngster is taken for” what, “but I go up too, and am tried and sentenced”?

4. The poet states in Section 27, “I merely stir, press, feel with my fingers, and am” what?

5. The narrator claims in Section 26 that the “orchestra whirls me wider than” what?

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