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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How old does the narrator of the poem claim to be in Section 1?
(a) 44.
(b) 29.
(c) 37.
(d) 34.

3. The narrator claims in Section 2 that the atmosphere “has no taste of” what?
(a) “The distillation.”
(b) “The reconciliation.”
(c) “The concentration.”
(d) “The emancipation.”

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. The narrator claims in Section 5, “I know that the hand of God is the promise of” what?

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

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