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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator calls out to “beat the gong of” what, in Section 23?
(a) “Submission.”
(b) “Failure.”
(c) “Victory.”
(d) “Revolt.”

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

3. With whom does the narrator describe spending “that day round the chowder-kettle” in Section 10?
(a) Farmers and ranchers.
(b) Bankers and businessmen.
(c) Drunks and criminals.
(d) Boatsmen and clam-diggers.

4. How many “young men bathe by the shore,” according to the narrator in Section 11?
(a) 20.
(b) 15.
(c) 6.
(d) 28.

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

6. The narrator describes “Houses and rooms” full of what in the beginning of Section 2?
(a) Perfumes.
(b) Paintings.
(c) Ornate carvings.
(d) Rich wood.

7. Section 17 ends with the line, “This is the common air that bathes” what?
(a) “The body.”
(b) “The globe.”
(c) “The county.”
(d) “The country.”

8. What is being carried in loads on the “slow-drawn wagon” in Section 9?
(a) Rice.
(b) Dried grass.
(c) Corn.
(d) Garlic.

9. 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) “Hat and boots.”
(c) “Tie and socks.”
(d) “Socks and belt.”

10. The narrator says in Section 10 that while he wanders “alone in the wilds and mountains” he is amazed at his own what?
(a) “Wonder and reverence.”
(b) “Lightness and glee.”
(c) “Questions and answers.”
(d) “Strife and terror.”

11. The narrator makes a statement equating stoutness with what animal in Section 3?
(a) A horse.
(b) A buffalo.
(c) A moose.
(d) A cow.

12. The poet claims in Section 21 that “it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,” and that “there is nothing greater than” what?
(a) “The father of children.”
(b) “The owner of the animals.”
(c) “The cousin of the animals.”
(d) “The mother of men.”

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

14. Who is described “with grimed and hairy chests” environing the anvil in Section 12?
(a) Blacksmiths.
(b) Doctors.
(c) Carpenters.
(d) Trappers.

15. The narrator claims to “lean and loafe at my ease observing” what, in Section 1?
(a) “A spear of summer grass.”
(b) “A falling autumn leaf.”
(c) “The falling flakes of snow.”
(d) “A blooming spring flower.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What adjective does the narrator use in describing the summer morning in Section 5?

2. What sound is the “wild gander” cited as calling out as he passes in Section 14?

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

4. The narrator combines the word “respiration” with what word in Section 2?

5. Of what does the narrator say in Section 23, “it alone rounds and completes all, that mystic baffling wonder alone completes all”?

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