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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is described “with grimed and hairy chests” environing the anvil in Section 12?
(a) Carpenters.
(b) Trappers.
(c) Blacksmiths.
(d) Doctors.

3. The narrator claims that “size is only” what, in Section 21?
(a) “Perceptive.”
(b) “One measurement.”
(c) “Development.”
(d) “Relative.”

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

5. What “is drawn on the slip-noose” in Section 33?
(a) The phoenix.
(b) The ocean.
(c) The life-car.
(d) The sun.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator says in Section 13 to not call what creature “unworthy because she is not something else”?

3. Whitman writes in Section 1 of the poem that every what “belonging to me as good belongs to you”?

4. The poet says in Section 31 that he believes what “is no less than the journey-work of the stars”?

5. The narrator describes “the little one” as sleeping where in the opening of Section 8?

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