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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) “Kiss me.”
(c) “Take me.”
(d) “Alarm me.”

2. The poet declares in Section 52, “I too am not a bit tamed, I too am” what?
(a) “Rebellious.”
(b) “Untranslatable.”
(c) “Mysterious.”
(d) “Unstoppable.”

3. Who does the author say “embody themselves in me and I am embodied in them” at the end of Section 37?
(a) “Saints.”
(b) “Givers.”
(c) “Askers.”
(d) “Takers.”

4. The narrator describes “the little one” as sleeping where in the opening of Section 8?
(a) “Its cradle.”
(b) “The bed.”
(c) “A basket.”
(d) “The bathtub.”

5. In describing his body in Section 3, the narrator claims, “Not an inch nor a particle of an inch is” what?
(a) “Vile.”
(b) “Diseased.”
(c) “Without pain.”
(d) “Immune.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What sound is described as emanating from flames in Section 26?

2. Which of the five senses does the narrator address in Section 29?

3. The poet describes taking himself “the exact dimensions of” whom, in Section 41?

4. What does the poet say he opens at night to “see the far-sprinkled systems” in Section 45?

5. The narrator claims in Section 7, “I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash’d babe, and am not contain’d between my” what?

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