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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the conclusion of Section 6, the narrator states that “to die is different from what any one supposed, and” what?
(a) “Painful.”
(b) “Luckier.”
(c) “Quicker.”
(d) “Pacifying.”

2. As the narrator watches “the little one” sleeping in Section 8, he silently brushes away what with his hand?
(a) Moths.
(b) Flies.
(c) Bats.
(d) Mosquitoes.

3. With whom does the narrator describe spending “that day round the chowder-kettle” in Section 10?
(a) Farmers and ranchers.
(b) Boatsmen and clam-diggers.
(c) Drunks and criminals.
(d) Bankers and businessmen.

4. How is the girl described that accompanies the youngster “up the bushy hill” in Section 8?
(a) “Red-faced.”
(b) “Red-headed.”
(c) “Red-eyed.”
(d) “Red-skinned.”

5. The narrator says that he sees “the elementary laws never” do what, in Section 20?
(a) “Convict.”
(b) “Conclude.”
(c) “Improve.”
(d) “Apologize.”

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are “projected masculine, full-sized and golden” in Section 29?

3. The narrator asserts in Section 21, “I am not the poet of goodness only, I do not decline to be the poet of” what also?

4. What “is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels,” in Section 31?

5. What does the narrator say he does “alone far in the wilds and mountains” in Section 10?

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