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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 “lunatic” described in Section 15 “will never sleep any more as he did in the cot” where?
(a) “In the barn.”
(b) “In the living room.”
(c) “In his mother’s bedroom.”
(d) “In the outhouse.”

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

3. What instruments does the narrator describe playing in the opening of Section 18?
(a) Cornets and drums.
(b) Flutes and whistles.
(c) Drums and piano.
(d) Tubas and bass.

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) “Nothing.”
(b) “A waste of time.”
(c) “Unnerving.”
(d) “A mystery.”

5. The narrator claims “I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or” what, in Section 20?
(a) “Be understood.”
(b) “To confuse.”
(c) “Be admonished.”
(d) “Look to the stars.”

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator asserts in Section 20, “In all people I see” what?

3. The narrator claims in Section 15, “The married and unmarried children ride home to their” what?

4. The narrator describes being surrounded by “trippers” and what in the opening of Section 4?

5. Who is described “with grimed and hairy chests” environing the anvil in Section 12?

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