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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 “send their old heat against my approach,” according to the poet in Section 31?
(a) “The grains of sand.”
(b) “The plutonic rocks.”
(c) “The willowy trees.”
(d) “The vacant air.”

2. What creature “in his tough pimples sleeps by the bayou” in Section 33?
(a) The alligator.
(b) The frog.
(c) The owl.
(d) The wild boar.

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

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

5. In the opening of Section 20, the narrator says, “Who goes there? Hankering, gross, mystical” and what?
(a) “Wild.”
(b) “Nude.”
(c) “Forbidden.”
(d) “Pure.”

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the poet describe the summer night in Section 21?

2. What creature “suns his flabby length on a rock” in Section 33?

3. Who is described as the grandson of Kronos in Section 41?

4. The narrator claims to “lean and loafe at my ease observing” what, in Section 1?

5. According to the poet in Section 31, what “would adorn the parlors of heaven”?

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