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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 color, in addition to green, is considered the “tufted crown intentional” by the narrator in Section 13?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Orange.
(c) Violet.
(d) Red.

2. 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?
(a) “Send sun-rise out of me.”
(b) “Seek out a shadow.”
(c) “Hide in a fog.”
(d) “Produce my own clouds.”

3. The “lunatic” described in Section 15 “will never sleep any more as he did in the cot” where?
(a) “In his mother’s bedroom.”
(b) “In the barn.”
(c) “In the outhouse.”
(d) “In the living room.”

4. What character is “sold at the auction-stand” in Section 15?
(a) The Asian girl.
(b) The Polish boy.
(c) The quadroon girl.
(d) The Mexican girl.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What sound is described as emanating from flames in Section 26?

2. Who does the author say “embody themselves in me and I am embodied in them” at the end of Section 37?

3. The narrator says in Section 25, “My voice goes after what my” what “cannot reach”?

4. By whom does the narrator say he has been “given up” in Section 28?

5. What sound is the “wild gander” cited as calling out as he passes in Section 14?

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