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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Of animals, the poet says in Section 32, “Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of” what?
(a) “Loving peace.”
(b) “Owning things.”
(c) “Earning a wage.”
(d) “Religious boundaries.”

3. The narrator describes “Houses and rooms” full of what in the beginning of Section 2?
(a) Ornate carvings.
(b) Perfumes.
(c) Rich wood.
(d) Paintings.

4. What is described in Section 8 as sprawled “on the bloody floor of the bedroom”?
(a) “The suicide.”
(b) “The model.”
(c) “A handkerchief.”
(d) “A murder victim.”

5. To whom does the narrator say the sentries have left him helpless in Section 28?
(a) “A red marauder.”
(b) “A cutthroat gambler.”
(c) “God.”
(d) “The devil.”

Short Answer Questions

1. “Words” are described as being as “simple as” what, in Section 39?

2. What adjective describes the city’s houses in the beginning of Section 33?

3. “Behavior” is described as “lawless” as what in Section 39?

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

5. Of “these thoughts,” the narrator says “If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are” what, in Section 17?

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