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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 narrator asserts in Section 20, “In all people I see” what?
(a) “My sister.”
(b) “My mother.”
(c) “Myself.”
(d) “My father.”

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

3. What sound is the “wild gander” cited as calling out as he passes in Section 14?
(a) “Ya-honk.”
(b) “Hee-onk.”
(c) “Woohoo.”
(d) “Ca-caw.”

4. The poet says in Section 25, “Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, if I could not now and always” do what?
(a) “Produce my own clouds.”
(b) “Seek out a shadow.”
(c) “Hide in a fog.”
(d) “Send sun-rise out of me.”

5. The narrator says that he sees “the elementary laws never” do what, in Section 20?
(a) “Apologize.”
(b) “Convict.”
(c) “Improve.”
(d) “Conclude.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What color shirt is “the negro” wearing in Section 13?

2. The narrator describes the judge in Section 26 as “with hands tight to the desk, his pallid lips pronouncing” what?

3. What is described in Section 8 as sprawled “on the bloody floor of the bedroom”?

4. The poet claims in Section 21 that “it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,” and that “there is nothing greater than” what?

5. What “is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels,” in Section 31?

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