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

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

3. 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?
(a) “The mother of men.”
(b) “The owner of the animals.”
(c) “The father of children.”
(d) “The cousin of the animals.”

4. The narrator says in Section 20, “Having pried through the strata, analyzed to a hair, counsel'd with doctors and calculated close, I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own” what?
(a) “Stomach.”
(b) “Throat.”
(c) “Tongue.”
(d) “Bones.”

5. What are described as “making a rush for my veins” in Section 28?
(a) “Curtains of gold.”
(b) “Chariots of fire.”
(c) “Flames and ether.”
(d) “Winds of worry.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The poet describes “considering a curl of smoke or a hair on the back of my hand just as curious as any” what, in Section 41?

2. What does the poet refer to as “the sound I love,” in Section 26?

3. Who is described with the line, “Wherever he goes men and women accept and desire him” in Section 39?

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

5. Herds of what animals “make a crawling spread of the square miles far and near” in Section 33?

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