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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the butcher-boy put off, according to the narrator in Section 12?
(a) “His resting clothes.”
(b) “His killing-clothes.”
(c) “His church clothes.”
(d) “His working clothes.”

2. The narrator says in Section 24, “I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of” what?
(a) “Monarchy.”
(b) “Democracy.”
(c) “Illuminati.”
(d) “Socialism.”

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

4. 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 outhouse.”
(c) “In the living room.”
(d) “In his mother’s bedroom.”

5. As the narrator watches “the little one” sleeping in Section 8, he silently brushes away what with his hand?
(a) Moths.
(b) Mosquitoes.
(c) Flies.
(d) Bats.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In describing his body in Section 3, the narrator claims, “Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is” what?

4. What is being carried in loads on the “slow-drawn wagon” in Section 9?

5. How does the poet describe the summer night in Section 21?

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