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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 says in Section 40, “I seize the descending man and raise him with resistless will, O despairer, here is my” what?
(a) “Leg.”
(b) “Neck.”
(c) “Heart.”
(d) “Hand.”

2. To whom does the poet say “I might tell how I like you, but cannot” in Section 40?
(a) “Man or woman.”
(b) “Dog or cat.”
(c) “Human or spirit.”
(d) “Child or adult.”

3. What sound is described as emanating from flames in Section 26?
(a) “Crackling.”
(b) “Whistling.”
(c) “Whooshing.”
(d) “Gossip.”

4. The narrator claims in Section 26 that the “orchestra whirls me wider than” what?
(a) “Deserts spread.”
(b) “Uranus flies.”
(c) “Canyons gape.”
(d) “Mountains rise.”

5. Where does the narrator say the “sharp-hoof’d moose” comes from in Section 14?
(a) The east.
(b) The north.
(c) The west.
(d) The south.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The poet says in Section 25, “Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, if I could not now and always” do what?

4. The narrator claims in Section 14, “What is commonest, cheapest, nearest, easiest, is” what?

5. In the final lines of Section 25, the poet claims, “Writing and talk do not prove me, I carry the plenum of proof and every thing else in my” what?

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