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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the poet describe the summer night in Section 21?
(a) “Mad naked summer night.”
(b) “Rich with water summer night.”
(c) “Pulsing gray summer night.”
(d) “Hot sweaty summer night.”

2. What does the narrator say that seeing “at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books” in Section 24?
(a) “A puppy.”
(b) “A pansy.”
(c) “A sunflower.”
(d) “A morning-glory.”

3. The narrator claims in Section 2 that the atmosphere “has no taste of” what?
(a) “The emancipation.”
(b) “The reconciliation.”
(c) “The distillation.”
(d) “The concentration.”

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

5. The narrator says that he sees “the elementary laws never” do what, in Section 20?
(a) “Conclude.”
(b) “Apologize.”
(c) “Convict.”
(d) “Improve.”

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the narrator say “I resign myself to you also” in the beginning of Section 21?

2. What is described in Section 8 as sprawled “on the bloody floor of the bedroom”?

3. The narrator describes “the little one” as sleeping where in the opening of Section 8?

4. The poet claims in Section 48 that “whoever walks a furlong without” what “walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud”?

5. The “lunatic” described in Section 15 “will never sleep any more as he did in the cot” where?

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