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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 “impassive” objects “receive and return so many echoes,” according to the narrator in Section 8?
(a) “Clouds.”
(b) “Swamps.”
(c) “Trees.”
(d) “Stones.”

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

3. What does the poet refer to as “the sound I love,” in Section 26?
(a) “The sound of the baby’s sigh.”
(b) “The sound of the cooing dove.”
(c) “The sound of the howling wind.”
(d) “The sound of the human voice.”

4. Who “shoulder their carbines and keep watch,” according to the poet in Section 37?
(a) “The sentries.”
(b) “The housewives.”
(c) “The armed guards.”
(d) “The keepers of convicts.”

5. The poet claims in Section 24, “Copulation is no more rank to me than” what is?
(a) “Death.”
(b) “Injury.”
(c) “Birth.”
(d) “Thought.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal is “searching for roots or honey” in Section 33?

2. Where does the narrator say the “sharp-hoof’d moose” comes from in Section 14?

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

4. What does the narrator say that seeing “at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books” in Section 24?

5. The narrator claims in Section 26 that the “orchestra whirls me wider than” what?

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