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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 33-36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sound is described as emanating from flames in Section 26?
(a) “Crackling.”
(b) “Gossip.”
(c) “Whistling.”
(d) “Whooshing.”

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

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

4. Whitman writes in Section 1 of the poem that every what “belonging to me as good belongs to you”?
(a) “Religion.”
(b) “Atom.”
(c) “Element.”
(d) “Bible.”

5. The narrator of the poem claims in Section 1 that “what I assume you shall” what?
(a) “Evade.”
(b) “Assume.”
(c) “Endear.”
(d) “Ignore.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator compels the reader in Section 2 by stating, “Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess” what?

2. Of animals, the poet says in Section 32, “Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of” what?

3. Herds of what animals “make a crawling spread of the square miles far and near” in Section 33?

4. What instrument is described as “the young man’s heart’s complaint” in Section 26?

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

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