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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 13-16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say he does “alone far in the wilds and mountains” in Section 10?
(a) Fishes.
(b) Hunts.
(c) Ponders.
(d) Prays.

2. The narrator compels the reader in Section 2 by stating, “Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess” what?
(a) “The keys to humanity.”
(b) “Belief in a higher power.”
(c) “The origin of all poems.”
(d) “All the secrets of nature.”

3. For how long does the narrator say the runaway slave stayed with him in Section 10?
(a) A year.
(b) A month.
(c) A day.
(d) A week.

4. Who does the narrator ask in Section 13, “What is it that you express in your eyes?”
(a) The oxen.
(b) The goats.
(c) The cows.
(d) The horses.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of boat is described “under her sky-sails” in Section 10?

2. How old does the narrator of the poem claim to be in Section 1?

3. The narrator says in Section 14, “The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred” what?

4. Which word from Section 12 means “limber” or “flexible”?

5. The narrator of the poem claims in Section 1 that “what I assume you shall” what?

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