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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The narrator of the poem claims in Section 1 that “what I assume you shall” what?
(a) “Evade.”
(b) “Assume.”
(c) “Endear.”
(d) “Ignore.”

4. What does the butcher-boy put off, according to the narrator in Section 12?
(a) “His killing-clothes.”
(b) “His church clothes.”
(c) “His resting clothes.”
(d) “His working clothes.”

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Section 17 ends with the line, “This is the common air that bathes” what?

3. The narrator exclaims in Section 18, “Vivas to those who have” what?

4. In describing his body in Section 3, the narrator claims, “Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is” what?

5. 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?

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