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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator says that he sees “the elementary laws never” do what, in Section 20?
(a) “Convict.”
(b) “Conclude.”
(c) “Improve.”
(d) “Apologize.”

2. Where does the narrator say the “sharp-hoof’d moose” comes from in Section 14?
(a) The east.
(b) The north.
(c) The south.
(d) The west.

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

4. From where does the narrator describe following the movements of the men with sledges and hammers in the end of Section 12?
(a) “The mountain-cliff dwelling.”
(b) “The freeway terminal.”
(c) “The wrecking yard.”
(d) “The cinder-strew’d threshold.”

5. The narrator says in Section 24, “I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of” what?
(a) “Illuminati.”
(b) “Democracy.”
(c) “Monarchy.”
(d) “Socialism.”

6. The narrator claims “I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or” what, in Section 20?
(a) “To confuse.”
(b) “Be admonished.”
(c) “Be understood.”
(d) “Look to the stars.”

7. The narrator claims in Section 20, “I laugh at what you call” what?
(a) “Progress.”
(b) “Wealth.”
(c) “Dissolution.”
(d) “Sacred.”

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

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

10. Of what does the narrator say in Section 23, “it alone rounds and completes all, that mystic baffling wonder alone completes all”?
(a) “Space.”
(b) “Erosion.”
(c) “Weather.”
(d) “Time.”

11. What does the narrator say he does “alone far in the wilds and mountains” in Section 10?
(a) Fishes.
(b) Hunts.
(c) Prays.
(d) Ponders.

12. To what does the narrator say “I resign myself to you also” in the beginning of Section 21?
(a) “You canyon!”
(b) “You desert!”
(c) “You sea!”
(d) “You forest!”

13. The narrator claims in Section 15, “The married and unmarried children ride home to their” what?
(a) “Labor Day brunch.”
(b) “Christmas dinner.”
(c) “Thanksgiving dinner.”
(d) “Easter dinner.”

14. What color shirt is “the negro” wearing in Section 13?
(a) Blue.
(b) White.
(c) Red.
(d) Black.

15. The narrator of the poem claims in Section 1 that “what I assume you shall” what?
(a) “Assume.”
(b) “Endear.”
(c) “Evade.”
(d) “Ignore.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does the poet describe as “a word of the modern” in Section 23?

2. How is the girl described that accompanies the youngster “up the bushy hill” in Section 8?

3. How many suns does the narrator claim there are left in Section 2?

4. The poet claims in Section 24, “Copulation is no more rank to me than” what is?

5. As the narrator watches “the little one” sleeping in Section 8, he silently brushes away what with his hand?

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