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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 does the narrator bring to the runaway slave when he encounters him in Section 10?
(a) A tub of water.
(b) An old dog.
(c) A bale of hay.
(d) A letter.

2. The narrator says in Section 20, “Having pried through the strata, analyzed to a hair, counsel'd with doctors and calculated close, I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own” what?
(a) “Throat.”
(b) “Bones.”
(c) “Stomach.”
(d) “Tongue.”

3. The narrator claims in Section 15, “The married and unmarried children ride home to their” what?
(a) “Christmas dinner.”
(b) “Labor Day brunch.”
(c) “Thanksgiving dinner.”
(d) “Easter dinner.”

4. Whose proper name is stated in the poem in the beginning of Section 24?
(a) William Shakespeare’s.
(b) Walt Whitman’s.
(c) Teddy Roosevelt's.
(d) John Muir's.

5. To what does the narrator say “the other I am not must not abase itself to you” in Section 5?
(a) “My soul.”
(b) “My youth.”
(c) “My intestines.”
(d) “My scalp.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says in Section 24, “I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of” what?

2. 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?

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

4. Who “sets traps on the creek that helps fill the Huron” in Section 15?

5. The narrator asserts in Section 20, “I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by” what?

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