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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 is described in Section 8 as sprawled “on the bloody floor of the bedroom”?
(a) “A handkerchief.”
(b) “A murder victim.”
(c) “The suicide.”
(d) “The model.”

2. The narrator claims in Section 2 that the atmosphere “has no taste of” what?
(a) “The distillation.”
(b) “The emancipation.”
(c) “The concentration.”
(d) “The reconciliation.”

3. To what does the narrator say “the other I am not must not abase itself to you” in Section 5?
(a) “My intestines.”
(b) “My scalp.”
(c) “My soul.”
(d) “My youth.”

4. How many “young men bathe by the shore,” according to the narrator in Section 11?
(a) 20.
(b) 6.
(c) 15.
(d) 28.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator says that he sees “the elementary laws never” do what, in Section 20?

3. The narrator states in Section 7, “Undrape! You are not guilty to me, nor stale nor” what?

4. Whitman writes in Section 1 of the poem that every what “belonging to me as good belongs to you”?

5. The narrator describes “the little one” as sleeping where in the opening of Section 8?

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