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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many “young men bathe by the shore,” according to the narrator in Section 11?
(a) 6.
(b) 20.
(c) 28.
(d) 15.

2. Whose proper name is stated in the poem in the beginning of Section 24?
(a) William Shakespeare’s.
(b) Walt Whitman’s.
(c) John Muir's.
(d) Teddy Roosevelt's.

3. What color, in addition to green, is considered the “tufted crown intentional” by the narrator in Section 13?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Violet.
(c) Orange.
(d) Red.

4. The narrator describes “the little one” as sleeping where in the opening of Section 8?
(a) “Its cradle.”
(b) “The bed.”
(c) “A basket.”
(d) “The bathtub.”

5. The narrator says in Section 20, “Having pried through the strata, analyzed to a hair, counsel'd with doctors and calculated close, I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own” what?
(a) “Tongue.”
(b) “Stomach.”
(c) “Throat.”
(d) “Bones.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Section 9 begins with a description of the big doors of what building standing open?

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

3. What is described in Section 8 as sprawled “on the bloody floor of the bedroom”?

4. With whom does the narrator describe spending “that day round the chowder-kettle” in Section 10?

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

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