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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator describes “the little one” as sleeping where in the opening of Section 8?
(a) “The bathtub.”
(b) “The bed.”
(c) “A basket.”
(d) “Its cradle.”

2. What question does the narrator say a child asked in Section 6?
(a) “What is the grass?”
(b) “When will summer come?”
(c) “Who are the birds?”
(d) “Where are the turtles?”

3. The narrator claims in Section 7, “I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash’d babe, and am not contain’d between my” what?
(a) “Tie and socks.”
(b) “Hat and boots.”
(c) “Socks and belt.”
(d) “Belt and tie.”

4. How many suns does the narrator claim there are left in Section 2?
(a) Millions.
(b) But a few.
(c) Dozens.
(d) A handful.

5. In the conclusion of Section 6, the narrator states that “to die is different from what any one supposed, and” what?
(a) “Pacifying.”
(b) “Painful.”
(c) “Luckier.”
(d) “Quicker.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What “impassive” objects “receive and return so many echoes,” according to the narrator in Section 8?

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

3. The narrator claims in Section 2 that the atmosphere “has no taste of” what?

4. The narrator combines the word “respiration” with what word in Section 2?

5. The narrator describes being surrounded by “trippers” and what in the opening of Section 4?

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