View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator states in Section 3, “I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the” what?
(a) “Chicken and the egg.”
(b) “Good and evil.”
(c) “Beginning and the end.”
(d) “Rich and the poor.”

2. The narrator asks the reader in Section 2, “Have you reckon’d” how many acres?
(a) 320.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 160.
(d) 640.

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

4. The narrator asserts in Section 20, “I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by” what?
(a) “A carpenter’s compass.”
(b) “The winds of time.”
(c) “A witch’s broom.”
(d) “The moon’s rays.”

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

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

7. What word from Section 5 refers to a beam fastened to the keel of a vessel for strength?
(a) Jib.
(b) Rudder.
(c) Plank.
(d) Kelson.

8. The narrator says in Section 14, “The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred” what?
(a) “Thoughts.”
(b) “Recollections.”
(c) “Affections.”
(d) “Prayers.”

9. Of “these thoughts,” the narrator says “If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are” what, in Section 17?
(a) “Unnerving.”
(b) “Nothing.”
(c) “A mystery.”
(d) “A waste of time.”

10. What color, in addition to green, is considered the “tufted crown intentional” by the narrator in Section 13?
(a) Orange.
(b) Red.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Violet.

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

12. The “lunatic” described in Section 15 “will never sleep any more as he did in the cot” where?
(a) “In the living room.”
(b) “In the outhouse.”
(c) “In his mother’s bedroom.”
(d) “In the barn.”

13. The narrator compels the reader in Section 2 by stating, “Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess” what?
(a) “All the secrets of nature.”
(b) “The origin of all poems.”
(c) “Belief in a higher power.”
(d) “The keys to humanity.”

14. Who does the “red girl” marry in Section 10?
(a) The fisherman.
(b) The trapper.
(c) The lumberjack.
(d) The painter.

15. 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?
(a) “Belt and tie.”
(b) “Socks and belt.”
(c) “Tie and socks.”
(d) “Hat and boots.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Section 9 begins with a description of the big doors of what building standing open?

2. What color shirt is “the negro” wearing in Section 13?

3. The narrator claims in Section 2 that the atmosphere “has no taste of” what?

4. Who is described “with grimed and hairy chests” environing the anvil in Section 12?

5. What kind of boat is described “under her sky-sails” in Section 10?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 493 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample