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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where does the narrator describe following the movements of the men with sledges and hammers in the end of Section 12?
(a) “The wrecking yard.”
(b) “The mountain-cliff dwelling.”
(c) “The cinder-strew’d threshold.”
(d) “The freeway terminal.”

2. Who is described “with grimed and hairy chests” environing the anvil in Section 12?
(a) Blacksmiths.
(b) Trappers.
(c) Doctors.
(d) Carpenters.

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

4. What sound is the “wild gander” cited as calling out as he passes in Section 14?
(a) “Ya-honk.”
(b) “Woohoo.”
(c) “Hee-onk.”
(d) “Ca-caw.”

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of boat is described “under her sky-sails” in Section 10?

3. To what does the narrator say “I resign myself to you also” in the beginning of Section 21?

4. As the narrator watches “the little one” sleeping in Section 8, he silently brushes away what with his hand?

5. 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?

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