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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 17-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What question does the narrator say a child asked in Section 6?
(a) “When will summer come?”
(b) “What is the grass?”
(c) “Where are the turtles?”
(d) “Who are the birds?”

3. How many “young men bathe by the shore,” according to the narrator in Section 11?
(a) 6.
(b) 28.
(c) 20.
(d) 15.

4. What kind of boat is described “under her sky-sails” in Section 10?
(a) A destroyer.
(b) A Yankee clipper.
(c) A Confederate frigate.
(d) A schooner.

5. Who does the “red girl” marry in Section 10?
(a) The trapper.
(b) The lumberjack.
(c) The fisherman.
(d) The painter.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does the narrator describe spending “that day round the chowder-kettle” in Section 10?

2. Whitman writes in Section 1 of the poem that every what “belonging to me as good belongs to you”?

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

4. What color, in addition to green, is considered the “tufted crown intentional” by the narrator in Section 13?

5. The narrator says in Section 13 to not call what creature “unworthy because she is not something else”?

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