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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to the poet in Section 31, what “would adorn the parlors of heaven”?
(a) “White roses.”
(b) “The running blackberry.”
(c) “Orange tulips.”
(d) “Alpine strawberries.”

4. The narrator claims in Section 5, “I know that the hand of God is the promise of” what?
(a) “Salvation.”
(b) “My own.”
(c) “Others.”
(d) “Good fortune.”

5. The narrator asserts in Section 18 that “battles are lost in the same spirit in which” what?
(a) “They unfold.”
(b) “They are won.”
(c) “They are planned.”
(d) “They are fought.”

Short Answer Questions

1. How many “young men bathe by the shore,” according to the narrator in Section 11?

2. For how long does the narrator say the runaway slave stayed with him in Section 10?

3. What archaic word in Section 31 refers to an ant?

4. The poet claims in Section 21 that “it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,” and that “there is nothing greater than” what?

5. What “impassive” objects “receive and return so many echoes,” according to the narrator in Section 8?

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