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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator tells “Death, and you bitter hug or mortality” that “it is idle to try to” do what in Section 49?
(a) “Kill me.”
(b) “Take me.”
(c) “Alarm me.”
(d) “Kiss me.”

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) Pismire.
(b) Tenor.
(c) Cello.
(d) Contralto.

3. What does the butcher-boy put off, according to the narrator in Section 12?
(a) “His killing-clothes.”
(b) “His working clothes.”
(c) “His church clothes.”
(d) “His resting clothes.”

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The poet describes coming again upon the earth after how many years in Section 43?

2. The narrator claims in Section 32, “I think I could turn and live with animals, they’re so placid and” what?

3. What creature does the poet claim “swoops by and accuses” him in Section 52?

4. The narrator states “Now I will do nothing but” what, in the opening of Section 26?

5. The poet says in Section 44, “I am an acme of things accomplish’d, and I am an enclose of” what?

(see the answer key)

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