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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 29-32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Section 9 begins with a description of the big doors of what building standing open?
(a) “The fire house.”
(b) “The warehouse.”
(c) “The airplane hanger.”
(d) “The country barn.”

2. The narrator claims in Section 32, “I think I could turn and live with animals, they’re so placid and” what?
(a) “Wise.”
(b) “Self-contain’d.”
(c) “Aware.”
(d) “Patient.”

3. What “impassive” objects “receive and return so many echoes,” according to the narrator in Section 8?
(a) “Trees.”
(b) “Stones.”
(c) “Clouds.”
(d) “Swamps.”

4. What is referred to as “a chef-d’oeuvre for the highest” in Section 31?
(a) “The tree-toad.”
(b) “The ground squirrel.”
(c) “The flying fish.”
(d) “The water bird.”

5. What is described in Section 8 as sprawled “on the bloody floor of the bedroom”?
(a) “The model.”
(b) “A handkerchief.”
(c) “The suicide.”
(d) “A murder victim.”

Short Answer Questions

1. In the opening of Section 20, the narrator says, “Who goes there? Hankering, gross, mystical” and what?

2. Which of the five senses does the narrator address in Section 29?

3. The narrator says in Section 24, “I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of” what?

4. The narrator asserts in Section 31 that “the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all” what?

5. How is the girl described that accompanies the youngster “up the bushy hill” in Section 8?

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