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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. “Words” are described as being as “simple as” what, in Section 39?
(a) “Flowers.”
(b) “Stars.”
(c) “Rocks.”
(d) “Grass.”

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

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

4. What instrument is described as “the young man’s heart’s complaint” in Section 26?
(a) The bass.
(b) The flute.
(c) The violoncello.
(d) The clarinet.

5. Who is described with the line, “Wherever he goes men and women accept and desire him” in Section 39?
(a) “The ancient warrior.”
(b) “The friendly and flowing savage.”
(c) “The saintly priest.”
(d) “The god of the shepherds.”

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The poet asserts in Section 25, “Come now I will not be tantalized, you conceive too much of” 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 poet announces in Section 40, “To any one dying, thither I speed and twist” what?

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

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