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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) “Whistling.”
(c) “Whooshing.”
(d) “Gossip.”

2. What are “projected masculine, full-sized and golden” in Section 29?
(a) “Planets.”
(b) “Sunrises.”
(c) “Landscapes.”
(d) “Sunsets.”

3. The narrator describes the judge in Section 26 as “with hands tight to the desk, his pallid lips pronouncing” what?
(a) “A minimum sentence.”
(b) “A death-sentence.”
(c) “Community service.”
(d) “A life-sentence.”

4. What does the narrator say that seeing “at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books” in Section 24?
(a) “A puppy.”
(b) “A pansy.”
(c) “A morning-glory.”
(d) “A sunflower.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator claims in Section 7, “I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash’d babe, and am not contain’d between my” what?

2. The poet asserts in Section 25, “Come now I will not be tantalized, you conceive too much of” what?

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

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

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

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