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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 poet begins Section 41 with the statement, “I am he bringing help for the sick as they pant on their backs, And for strong upright men I bring” what?
(a) “Craters and volumes.”
(b) “Yet more needed help.”
(c) “Anchors and bridges.”
(d) “Oceans and sunlight.”

2. What question does the poet ask to he whom he calls “Listener up there!” in Section 51?
(a) “Where are you going?”
(b) “What have you to confide to me?”
(c) “Why am I here?”
(d) “What is your name?”

3. What word does the poet describe as “a word of the modern” in Section 23?
(a) “En-Masse.”
(b) “Tribulation.”
(c) “Atomic bomb.”
(d) “Weaponry.”

4. What creature does the poet claim “swoops by and accuses” him in Section 52?
(a) “The barn swallow.”
(b) “The short-nosed bat.”
(c) “The great horned owl.”
(d) “The spotted hawk.”

5. What “impassive” objects “receive and return so many echoes,” according to the narrator in Section 8?
(a) “Stones.”
(b) “Trees.”
(c) “Swamps.”
(d) “Clouds.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Who “sets traps on the creek that helps fill the Huron” in Section 15?

2. The narrator asserts in Section 20, “I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by” what?

3. The poet claims in Section 51, “I am large, I contain” what?

4. The narrator describes the judge in Section 26 as “with hands tight to the desk, his pallid lips pronouncing” what?

5. The poet asks the reader in the opening of Section 35, “Would you hear of an old-time” what?

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