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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Section 9 begins with a description of the big doors of what building standing open?
(a) “The airplane hanger.”
(b) “The country barn.”
(c) “The warehouse.”
(d) “The fire house.”

2. Which word from Section 12 means “limber” or “flexible”?
(a) Rigid.
(b) Lithe.
(c) Contralto.
(d) Articulate.

3. 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) “Rich and the poor.”
(c) “Good and evil.”
(d) “Beginning and the end.”

4. 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.”

5. From where does the narrator describe following the movements of the men with sledges and hammers in the end of Section 12?
(a) “The freeway terminal.”
(b) “The wrecking yard.”
(c) “The cinder-strew’d threshold.”
(d) “The mountain-cliff dwelling.”

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator makes a statement equating stoutness with what animal in Section 3?

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

4. The narrator of the poem claims in Section 1 that “what I assume you shall” what?

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

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