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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What word from Section 5 refers to a beam fastened to the keel of a vessel for strength?

3. What word from Section 6 refers to a figure or symbol with a hidden meaning?

4. As the narrator watches “the little one” sleeping in Section 8, he silently brushes away what with his hand?

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

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