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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what does the narrator say “I resign myself to you also” in the beginning of Section 21?
(a) “You forest!”
(b) “You canyon!”
(c) “You desert!”
(d) “You sea!”

2. What word used in the opening of Section 15 refers to the lowest female voice or voice part, intermediate between soprano and tenor?
(a) Contralto.
(b) Cello.
(c) Tenor.
(d) Pismire.

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

4. The poet says in Section 40, “To cotton-field drudge or” whom does he lean?
(a) “Birther of animals.”
(b) “Fixer of tractors.”
(c) “Cleaner of privies.”
(d) “Gutter of fish.”

5. What adjective describes the city’s houses in the beginning of Section 33?
(a) Obtuse.
(b) Triangular.
(c) Quadrangular.
(d) Rectangular.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator claims in Section 15, “The married and unmarried children ride home to their” what?

2. Who “shoulder their carbines and keep watch,” according to the poet in Section 37?

3. The narrator claims “I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or” what, in Section 20?

4. Which word from Section 12 means “limber” or “flexible”?

5. The poet tells the dying in Section 40, “I dilate you with” what?

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