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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 41-44.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The poet says in Section 40, “To cotton-field drudge or” whom does he lean?
(a) “Gutter of fish.”
(b) “Cleaner of privies.”
(c) “Fixer of tractors.”
(d) “Birther of animals.”

2. To what does the narrator say “the other I am not must not abase itself to you” in Section 5?
(a) “My soul.”
(b) “My scalp.”
(c) “My youth.”
(d) “My intestines.”

3. What “cuts like a black chip out of the water,” according to the poet in Section 33?
(a) “The fin of the shark.”
(b) “The shell of the clam.”
(c) “The wing of the ray.”
(d) “The beak of the octopus.”

4. By whom does the narrator say he has been “given up” in Section 28?
(a) “Priests.”
(b) “Pillagers.”
(c) “God.”
(d) “Traitors.”

5. “Words” are described as being as “simple as” what, in Section 39?
(a) “Grass.”
(b) “Stars.”
(c) “Flowers.”
(d) “Rocks.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator makes a statement equating stoutness with what animal in Section 3?

2. In describing his body in Section 3, the narrator claims, “Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is” what?

3. What sound is described as emanating from flames in Section 26?

4. The narrator exclaims in Section 18, “Vivas to those who have” what?

5. The “lunatic” described in Section 15 “will never sleep any more as he did in the cot” where?

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