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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In the conclusion of Section 6, the narrator states that “to die is different from what any one supposed, and” what?
(a) “Pacifying.”
(b) “Quicker.”
(c) “Painful.”
(d) “Luckier.”

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

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) “Strife and terror.”
(b) “Wonder and reverence.”
(c) “Questions and answers.”
(d) “Lightness and glee.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the “red girl” marry in Section 10?

2. The narrator claims in Section 2 that the atmosphere “has no taste of” what?

3. How old does the narrator of the poem claim to be in Section 1?

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

5. The narrator describes “Houses and rooms” full of what in the beginning of Section 2?

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