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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sections 49-52.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As the narrator watches “the little one” sleeping in Section 8, he silently brushes away what with his hand?
(a) Flies.
(b) Bats.
(c) Moths.
(d) Mosquitoes.

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

3. What “cuts like a black chip out of the water,” according to the poet in Section 33?
(a) “The fin of the shark.”
(b) “The wing of the ray.”
(c) “The shell of the clam.”
(d) “The beak of the octopus.”

4. The narrator claims in Section 32, “I think I could turn and live with animals, they’re so placid and” what?
(a) “Wise.”
(b) “Patient.”
(c) “Aware.”
(d) “Self-contain’d.”

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The poet claims in Section 24, “Copulation is no more rank to me than” what is?

2. In the opening of Section 20, the narrator says, “Who goes there? Hankering, gross, mystical” and what?

3. Of what does the narrator say in Section 23, “it alone rounds and completes all, that mystic baffling wonder alone completes all”?

4. What word does Whitman use in Section 43 to refer to a Mesoamerican pyramid surmounted by a temple?

5. The poet describes outbidding what “old cautious” characters in Section 41?

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