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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The “lunatic” described in Section 15 “will never sleep any more as he did in the cot” where?
(a) “In the barn.”
(b) “In his mother’s bedroom.”
(c) “In the living room.”
(d) “In the outhouse.”

2. What word does the poet describe as “a word of the modern” in Section 23?
(a) “Atomic bomb.”
(b) “Weaponry.”
(c) “En-Masse.”
(d) “Tribulation.”

3. Which of the five senses does the narrator address in Section 29?
(a) “Smell.”
(b) “Touch.”
(c) “Sound.”
(d) “Taste.”

4. The narrator asserts in Section 20, “In all people I see” what?
(a) “My father.”
(b) “My mother.”
(c) “Myself.”
(d) “My sister.”

5. What is described as “the cataract falling like a veil over my countenance” in Section 33?
(a) The Nile.
(b) Bridal Veil Falls.
(c) Niagara.
(d) The Atlantic Ocean.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What creature “in his tough pimples sleeps by the bayou” in Section 33?

3. The narrator states in Section 3, “I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the” what?

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

5. In the conclusion of Section 6, the narrator states that “to die is different from what any one supposed, and” what?

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