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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 9-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What “impassive” objects “receive and return so many echoes,” according to the narrator in Section 8?
(a) “Trees.”
(b) “Stones.”
(c) “Clouds.”
(d) “Swamps.”

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

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

5. The narrator says in Section 10 that while he wanders “alone in the wilds and mountains” he is amazed at his own what?
(a) “Lightness and glee.”
(b) “Wonder and reverence.”
(c) “Strife and terror.”
(d) “Questions and answers.”

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Section 9 begins with a description of the big doors of what building standing open?

3. What does the narrator say he does “alone far in the wilds and mountains” in Section 10?

4. What does the butcher-boy put off, according to the narrator in Section 12?

5. How is the girl described that accompanies the youngster “up the bushy hill” in Section 8?

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