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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 in Section 5, “I know that the hand of God is the promise of” what?
(a) “Salvation.”
(b) “Good fortune.”
(c) “My own.”
(d) “Others.”

2. What adjective does the narrator use in describing the summer morning in Section 5?
(a) “Retrograde.”
(b) “Transparent.”
(c)
(d) “Boiling.”

3. What is described in Section 8 as sprawled “on the bloody floor of the bedroom”?
(a) “A handkerchief.”
(b) “A murder victim.”
(c) “The suicide.”
(d) “The model.”

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

5. The narrator makes a statement equating stoutness with what animal in Section 3?
(a) A cow.
(b) A horse.
(c) A buffalo.
(d) A moose.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In describing his body in Section 3, the narrator claims, “Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is” what?

3. In the conclusion of Section 6, the narrator states that “to die is different from what any one supposed, and” what?

4. What question does the narrator say a child asked in Section 6?

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

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