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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator says in Section 13 to not call what creature “unworthy because she is not something else”?
(a) The snake.
(b) The eagle.
(c) The tortoise.
(d) The crow.

2. Which of the five senses does the narrator address in Section 29?
(a) “Touch.”
(b) “Sound.”
(c) “Smell.”
(d) “Taste.”

3. The narrator claims in Section 15, “The married and unmarried children ride home to their” what?
(a) “Christmas dinner.”
(b) “Easter dinner.”
(c) “Labor Day brunch.”
(d) “Thanksgiving dinner.”

4. The narrator says in Section 34 that he will now tell what he knew in what location in early youth?
(a) Colorado.
(b) Texas.
(c) Nevada.
(d) Montana.

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) “Bones.”
(b) “Tongue.”
(c) “Stomach.”
(d) “Throat.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The poet says in Section 31 that he believes what “is no less than the journey-work of the stars”?

2. The narrator claims in Section 33, “I am the hounded slave, I wince at the bite of” what?

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

4. What “send their old heat against my approach,” according to the poet in Section 31?

5. What question does the narrator say a child asked in Section 6?

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