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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The narrator exclaims in Section 18, “Vivas to those who have” what?
(a) “Wonder’d!”
(b) “Fail’d!”
(c) “Love’d!.”
(d) “Succeed’d!”

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

4. From where does the narrator describe following the movements of the men with sledges and hammers in the end of Section 12?
(a) “The mountain-cliff dwelling.”
(b) “The wrecking yard.”
(c) “The cinder-strew’d threshold.”
(d) “The freeway terminal.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the “red girl” marry in Section 10?

2. The poet claims in Section 24, “Copulation is no more rank to me than” what is?

3. What question does the narrator say a child asked in Section 6?

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

5. The narrator states in Section 7, “Undrape! You are not guilty to me, nor stale nor” what?

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