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

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

3. 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) “Hand.”
(c) “Neck.”
(d) “Heart.”

4. The narrator claims in Section 73, “Not a youngster is taken for” what, “but I go up too, and am tried and sentenced”?
(a) “Adultery.”
(b) “Heresy.”
(c) “Larceny.”
(d) “Bigotry.”

5. The narrator describes the judge in Section 26 as “with hands tight to the desk, his pallid lips pronouncing” what?
(a) “A life-sentence.”
(b) “Community service.”
(c) “A minimum sentence.”
(d) “A death-sentence.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What color shirt is “the negro” wearing in Section 13?

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

3. What character is “sold at the auction-stand” in Section 15?

4. What does the poet refer to as “the sound I love,” in Section 26?

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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