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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 “send their old heat against my approach,” according to the poet in Section 31?
(a) “The vacant air.”
(b) “The plutonic rocks.”
(c) “The willowy trees.”
(d) “The grains of sand.”

2. Which word from Section 12 means “limber” or “flexible”?
(a) Contralto.
(b) Articulate.
(c) Rigid.
(d) Lithe.

3. In the opening of Section 20, the narrator says, “Who goes there? Hankering, gross, mystical” and what?
(a) “Wild.”
(b) “Nude.”
(c) “Forbidden.”
(d) “Pure.”

4. What word from Section 5 refers to a beam fastened to the keel of a vessel for strength?
(a) Plank.
(b) Rudder.
(c) Kelson.
(d) Jib.

5. Who does the author say “embody themselves in me and I am embodied in them” at the end of Section 37?
(a) “Givers.”
(b) “Askers.”
(c) “Saints.”
(d) “Takers.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator claims that “size is only” what, in Section 21?

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

3. The narrator says in Section 40, “I seize the descending man and raise him with resistless will, O despairer, here is my” what?

4. The narrator claims to “lean and loafe at my ease observing” what, in Section 1?

5. The poet says in Section 25, “Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, if I could not now and always” do what?

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