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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 41-44.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What instrument is described as “the young man’s heart’s complaint” in Section 26?
(a) The clarinet.
(b) The violoncello.
(c) The flute.
(d) The bass.

2. The narrator says in Section 25, “My voice goes after what my” what “cannot reach”?
(a) “Nose.”
(b) “Eyes.”
(c) “Lips.”
(d) “Fingertips.”

3. The narrator describes being surrounded by “trippers” and what in the opening of Section 4?
(a) “Laughers.”
(b) “Askers.”
(c) “Rollers.”
(d) “Wanderers.”

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

5. The narrator claims in Section 33, “I am the hounded slave, I wince at the bite of” what?
(a) “The snakes.”
(b) “The dogs.”
(c) “The bugs.”
(d) “Man.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The poet proclaims in Section 44, “What is known I” do what to?

2. The narrator combines the word “respiration” with what word in Section 2?

3. “Words” are described as being as “simple as” what, in Section 39?

4. The poet asks the reader in the opening of Section 35, “Would you hear of an old-time” what?

5. The narrator claims in Section 5, “I know that the hand of God is the promise of” what?

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