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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator claims in Section 15, “The married and unmarried children ride home to their” what?
(a) “Labor Day brunch.”
(b) “Easter dinner.”
(c) “Christmas dinner.”
(d) “Thanksgiving dinner.”

2. The narrator asserts in Section 20, “In all people I see” what?
(a) “Myself.”
(b) “My sister.”
(c) “My mother.”
(d) “My father.”

3. What word from Section 5 refers to a beam fastened to the keel of a vessel for strength?
(a) Jib.
(b) Plank.
(c) Rudder.
(d) Kelson.

4. Of “these thoughts,” the narrator says “If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are” what, in Section 17?
(a) “A mystery.”
(b) “Unnerving.”
(c) “A waste of time.”
(d) “Nothing.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator claims in Section 14, “What is commonest, cheapest, nearest, easiest, is” what?

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

3. The narrator says in Section 20, “Having pried through the strata, analyzed to a hair, counsel'd with doctors and calculated close, I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own” what?

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

5. The narrator says in Section 14, “The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred” what?

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