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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 does the narrator bring to the runaway slave when he encounters him in Section 10?
(a) An old dog.
(b) A tub of water.
(c) A bale of hay.
(d) A letter.

2. The narrator compels the reader in Section 2 by stating, “Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess” what?
(a) “All the secrets of nature.”
(b) “Belief in a higher power.”
(c) “The origin of all poems.”
(d) “The keys to humanity.”

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

4. The narrator combines the word “respiration” with what word in Section 2?
(a) “Desperation.”
(b) “Resignation.”
(c) “Retaliation.”
(d) “Inspiration.”

5. Whitman writes in Section 1 of the poem that every what “belonging to me as good belongs to you”?
(a) “Atom.”
(b) “Element.”
(c) “Religion.”
(d) “Bible.”

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which word from Section 12 means “limber” or “flexible”?

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

4. From where does the narrator describe following the movements of the men with sledges and hammers in the end of Section 12?

5. Who is described “with grimed and hairy chests” environing the anvil in Section 12?

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