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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who “sets traps on the creek that helps fill the Huron” in Section 15?
(a) The Beaver.
(b) The Wolverine.
(c) The Badger.
(d) The Wolf.

2. What character is “sold at the auction-stand” in Section 15?
(a) The Asian girl.
(b) The quadroon girl.
(c) The Polish boy.
(d) The Mexican girl.

3. How is the girl described that accompanies the youngster “up the bushy hill” in Section 8?
(a) “Red-eyed.”
(b) “Red-skinned.”
(c) “Red-faced.”
(d) “Red-headed.”

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

5. For what does the narrator exclaim “Hurrah!” for in Section 23?
(a) “Politics.”
(b) “Positive emotions.”
(c) “Events.”
(d) “Positive science.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator claims in Section 14, “What is commonest, cheapest, nearest, easiest, is” what?

2. Which word from Section 12 means “limber” or “flexible”?

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

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

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

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