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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Of what does the narrator say in Section 23, “it alone rounds and completes all, that mystic baffling wonder alone completes all”?
(a) “Space.”
(b) “Erosion.”
(c) “Weather.”
(d) “Time.”

3. Of “these thoughts,” the narrator says “If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are” what, in Section 17?
(a) “Unnerving.”
(b) “Nothing.”
(c) “A mystery.”
(d) “A waste of time.”

4. The narrator asserts in Section 31 that “the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all” what?
(a) “Insects.”
(b) “Civilization.”
(c) “Science.”
(d) “Machinery.”

5. What word from Section 5 refers to a beam fastened to the keel of a vessel for strength?
(a) Rudder.
(b) Plank.
(c) Jib.
(d) Kelson.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says that he sees “the elementary laws never” do what, in Section 20?

2. What does the narrator say that seeing “at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books” in Section 24?

3. For what does the narrator exclaim “Hurrah!” for in Section 23?

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

5. What adjective does the narrator use in describing the summer morning in Section 5?

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