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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The narrator asserts in Section 18 that “battles are lost in the same spirit in which” what?
(a) “They are planned.”
(b) “They are fought.”
(c) “They are won.”
(d) “They unfold.”

3. The narrator states in Section 7, “Undrape! You are not guilty to me, nor stale nor” what?
(a) “Forgotten.”
(b) “Hated.”
(c) “Ignored.”
(d) “Discarded.”

4. Whose proper name is stated in the poem in the beginning of Section 24?
(a) Walt Whitman’s.
(b) William Shakespeare’s.
(c) Teddy Roosevelt's.
(d) John Muir's.

5. Who “sets traps on the creek that helps fill the Huron” in Section 15?
(a) The Beaver.
(b) The Wolverine.
(c) The Wolf.
(d) The Badger.

6. 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.”

7. 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 morning-glory.”
(c) “A puppy.”
(d) “A pansy.”

8. The narrator claims in Section 5, “I know that the hand of God is the promise of” what?
(a) “Others.”
(b) “Salvation.”
(c) “My own.”
(d) “Good fortune.”

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

10. Who does the narrator ask in Section 13, “What is it that you express in your eyes?”
(a) The goats.
(b) The horses.
(c) The cows.
(d) The oxen.

11. For how long does the narrator say the runaway slave stayed with him in Section 10?
(a) A month.
(b) A week.
(c) A year.
(d) A day.

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

13. In the opening of Section 20, the narrator says, “Who goes there? Hankering, gross, mystical” and what?
(a) “Wild.”
(b) “Forbidden.”
(c) “Pure.”
(d) “Nude.”

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

15. The narrator says in Section 20, “Having pried through the strata, analyzed to a hair, counsel'd with doctors and calculated close, I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own” what?
(a) “Throat.”
(b) “Bones.”
(c) “Stomach.”
(d) “Tongue.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says in Section 13 to not call what creature “unworthy because she is not something else”?

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

3. The narrator compares months to what in Section 20?

4. The narrator claims in Section 14, “What is commonest, cheapest, nearest, easiest, is” what?

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

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