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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sound is the “wild gander” cited as calling out as he passes in Section 14?
(a) “Ya-honk.”
(b) “Hee-onk.”
(c) “Ca-caw.”
(d) “Woohoo.”

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

3. Who does the narrator ask in Section 13, “What is it that you express in your eyes?”
(a) The horses.
(b) The goats.
(c) The cows.
(d) The oxen.

4. What color shirt is “the negro” wearing in Section 13?
(a) Black.
(b) White.
(c) Blue.
(d) Red.

5. Who does the author say “embody themselves in me and I am embodied in them” at the end of Section 37?
(a) “Givers.”
(b) “Takers.”
(c) “Saints.”
(d) “Askers.”

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does the narrator say the sentries have left him helpless in Section 28?

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

3. The poet tells the dying in Section 40, “I dilate you with” what?

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

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

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