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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 claims in Section 20, “I laugh at what you call” what?
(a) “Progress.”
(b) “Dissolution.”
(c) “Sacred.”
(d) “Wealth.”

2. The narrator compares months to what in Section 20?
(a) Oceans.
(b) Earthquakes.
(c) Canyons.
(d) Vacuums.

3. The narrator describes being surrounded by “trippers” and what in the opening of Section 4?
(a) “Wanderers.”
(b) “Rollers.”
(c) “Askers.”
(d) “Laughers.”

4. What word used in the opening of Section 15 refers to the lowest female voice or voice part, intermediate between soprano and tenor?
(a) Contralto.
(b) Pismire.
(c) Cello.
(d) Tenor.

5. 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.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose proper name is stated in the poem in the beginning of Section 24?

2. What “impassive” objects “receive and return so many echoes,” according to the narrator in Section 8?

3. The narrator states in Section 3, “I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the” what?

4. For what does the narrator exclaim “Hurrah!” for in Section 23?

5. What adjective does the narrator use in describing the summer morning in Section 5?

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