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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. “Behavior” is described as “lawless” as what in Section 39?
(a) “Falling leaves.”
(b) “Raindrops.”
(c) “Rapid rivers.”
(d) “Snow-flakes.”

2. The poet describes outbidding what “old cautious” characters in Section 41?
(a) Scuttlers.
(b) Hucksters.
(c) Visionaries.
(d) Sailors.

3. What instruments does the narrator describe playing in the opening of Section 18?
(a) Drums and piano.
(b) Tubas and bass.
(c) Cornets and drums.
(d) Flutes and whistles.

4. The narrator exclaims in Section 18, “Vivas to those who have” what?
(a) “Love’d!.”
(b) “Succeed’d!”
(c) “Fail’d!”
(d) “Wonder’d!”

5. The narrator asserts in Section 18 that “battles are lost in the same spirit in which” what?
(a) “They are planned.”
(b) “They are won.”
(c) “They are fought.”
(d) “They unfold.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator compels the reader in Section 2 by stating, “Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess” what?

2. Three of what are “whizzing in a row from three lusty angels with shirts bagg'd out at their waists” in Section 41?

3. To whom does the narrator say the sentries have left him helpless in Section 28?

4. To what does the narrator say “I resign myself to you also” in the beginning of Section 21?

5. The poet says in Section 40, “To cotton-field drudge or” whom does he lean?

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