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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 adjective does the narrator use in describing the summer morning in Section 5?
(a) “Retrograde.”
(b) “Transparent.”
(c)
(d) “Boiling.”

2. How does the poet describe the summer night in Section 21?
(a) “Pulsing gray summer night.”
(b) “Hot sweaty summer night.”
(c) “Mad naked summer night.”
(d) “Rich with water summer night.”

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

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 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) “Questions and answers.”
(c) “Lightness and glee.”
(d) “Strife and terror.”

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator claims in Section 2 that the atmosphere “has no taste of” what?

3. The narrator asserts in Section 20, “I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by” what?

4. The narrator claims in Section 20, “I laugh at what you call” what?

5. In the conclusion of Section 6, the narrator states that “to die is different from what any one supposed, and” what?

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