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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 claims to “lean and loafe at my ease observing” what, in Section 1?
(a) “The falling flakes of snow.”
(b) “A falling autumn leaf.”
(c) “A spear of summer grass.”
(d) “A blooming spring flower.”

2. In describing his body in Section 3, the narrator claims, “Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is” what?
(a) “Diseased.”
(b) “Immune.”
(c) “Without pain.”
(d) “Vile.”

3. Whitman writes in Section 1 of the poem that every what “belonging to me as good belongs to you”?
(a) “Element.”
(b) “Bible.”
(c) “Atom.”
(d) “Religion.”

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

5. The narrator asks the reader in Section 2, “Have you reckon’d” how many acres?
(a) 160.
(b) 320.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 640.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes “Houses and rooms” full of what in the beginning of Section 2?

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

3. The narrator compels the reader in Section 2 by stating, “Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess” what?

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

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

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