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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What archaic word in Section 31 refers to an ant?
(a) Pismire.
(b) Concubine.
(c) Scquttle.
(d) Amoeba.

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

3. To what does the narrator say in Section 40, “You seem to look for something at my hands”?
(a) “Earth.”
(b) “Wind.”
(c) “Fire.”
(d) “Water.”

4. 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) “All the secrets of nature.”
(d) “The origin of all poems.”

5. In the final lines of Section 25, the poet claims, “Writing and talk do not prove me, I carry the plenum of proof and every thing else in my” what?
(a) “Body.”
(b) “Mind.”
(c) “Face.”
(d) “Spirit.”

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does the poet say “I might tell how I like you, but cannot” in Section 40?

2. The narrator claims that “size is only” what, in Section 21?

3. What color, in addition to green, is considered the “tufted crown intentional” by the narrator in Section 13?

4. The poet asserts in Section 25, “Come now I will not be tantalized, you conceive too much of” what?

5. The poet asks the reader in the opening of Section 35, “Would you hear of an old-time” what?

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