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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 21-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator asserts in Section 21, “I am not the poet of goodness only, I do not decline to be the poet of” what also?
(a) “Wickedness.”
(b) “Destruction.”
(c) “Lies.”
(d) “Deceit.”

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

3. Which word from Section 12 means “limber” or “flexible”?
(a) Articulate.
(b) Lithe.
(c) Rigid.
(d) Contralto.

4. The narrator claims in Section 7, “I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash’d babe, and am not contain’d between my” what?
(a) “Hat and boots.”
(b) “Tie and socks.”
(c) “Socks and belt.”
(d) “Belt and tie.”

5. The narrator says in Section 10 that while he wanders “alone in the wilds and mountains” he is amazed at his own what?
(a) “Wonder and reverence.”
(b) “Lightness and glee.”
(c) “Strife and terror.”
(d) “Questions and answers.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What instruments does the narrator describe playing in the opening of Section 18?

2. Who “sets traps on the creek that helps fill the Huron” in Section 15?

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

4. For how long does the narrator say the runaway slave stayed with him in Section 10?

5. The narrator claims that “size is only” what, in Section 21?

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