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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What sound is described as emanating from flames in Section 26?
(a) “Whooshing.”
(b) “Gossip.”
(c) “Whistling.”
(d) “Crackling.”

3. The narrator claims in Section 20, “I laugh at what you call” what?
(a) “Sacred.”
(b) “Dissolution.”
(c) “Progress.”
(d) “Wealth.”

4. The narrator states in Section 3, “I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the” what?
(a) “Beginning and the end.”
(b) “Chicken and the egg.”
(c) “Rich and the poor.”
(d) “Good and evil.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator claims “I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or” what, in Section 20?

2. The narrator claims in Section 14, “What is commonest, cheapest, nearest, easiest, is” what?

3. The narrator tells “the tale of the murder in cold blood of” how many young men in Section 34?

4. What archaic word in Section 31 refers to an ant?

5. In the conclusion of Section 6, the narrator states that “to die is different from what any one supposed, and” what?

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