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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom does the narrator say the sentries have left him helpless in Section 28?
(a) “A cutthroat gambler.”
(b) “The devil.”
(c) “God.”
(d) “A red marauder.”

2. How does the poet describe the summer night in Section 21?
(a) “Hot sweaty summer night.”
(b) “Mad naked summer night.”
(c) “Pulsing gray summer night.”
(d) “Rich with water summer night.”

3. The narrator asserts in Section 31 that “the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all” what?
(a) “Civilization.”
(b) “Insects.”
(c) “Machinery.”
(d) “Science.”

4. The narrator states “Now I will do nothing but” what, in the opening of Section 26?
(a) “Yell.”
(b) “Stare.”
(c) “Wonder.”
(d) “Listen.”

5. The narrator states in Section 3, “I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the” what?
(a) “Rich and the poor.”
(b) “Chicken and the egg.”
(c) “Good and evil.”
(d) “Beginning and the end.”

Short Answer Questions

1. In the conclusion of Section 6, the narrator states that “to die is different from what any one supposed, and” what?

2. What does the narrator say he does “alone far in the wilds and mountains” in Section 10?

3. According to the poet in Section 31, what “would adorn the parlors of heaven”?

4. The poet claims in Section 21 that “it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,” and that “there is nothing greater than” what?

5. Who does the “red girl” marry in Section 10?

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