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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 compares months to what in Section 20?
(a) Earthquakes.
(b) Oceans.
(c) Vacuums.
(d) Canyons.

2. Where does the narrator say the “sharp-hoof’d moose” comes from in Section 14?
(a) The east.
(b) The south.
(c) The west.
(d) The north.

3. With whom does the narrator describe spending “that day round the chowder-kettle” in Section 10?
(a) Farmers and ranchers.
(b) Drunks and criminals.
(c) Boatsmen and clam-diggers.
(d) Bankers and businessmen.

4. Who “sets traps on the creek that helps fill the Huron” in Section 15?
(a) The Beaver.
(b) The Wolverine.
(c) The Wolf.
(d) The Badger.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator claims “I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or” what, in Section 20?

3. How many “young men bathe by the shore,” according to the narrator in Section 11?

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

5. The narrator claims to wear what as he pleases “indoors or out” in Section 20?

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