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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How old does the narrator of the poem claim to be in Section 1?
(a) 34.
(b) 37.
(c) 29.
(d) 44.

4. The narrator asks the reader in Section 2, “Have you reckon’d” how many acres?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 640.
(c) 320.
(d) 160.

5. What character is “sold at the auction-stand” in Section 15?
(a) The Mexican girl.
(b) The Polish boy.
(c) The Asian girl.
(d) The quadroon girl.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator ask in Section 13, “What is it that you express in your eyes?”

2. The narrator compares months to what in Section 20?

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

4. The narrator asserts in Section 20, “I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by” what?

5. The narrator compels the reader in Section 2 by stating, “Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess” what?

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