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

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

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

4. The narrator says in Section 14, “The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred” what?
(a) “Thoughts.”
(b) “Affections.”
(c) “Prayers.”
(d) “Recollections.”

5. To whom does the narrator say the sentries have left him helpless in Section 28?
(a) “The devil.”
(b) “God.”
(c) “A cutthroat gambler.”
(d) “A red marauder.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The “lunatic” described in Section 15 “will never sleep any more as he did in the cot” where?

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

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

4. To what does the narrator say in Section 40, “You seem to look for something at my hands”?

5. “Words” are described as being as “simple as” what, in Section 39?

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