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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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) “A waste of time.”
(b) “Nothing.”
(c) “Unnerving.”
(d) “A mystery.”

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

6. 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 mother of men.”
(c) “The owner of the animals.”
(d) “The cousin of the animals.”

7. The narrator describes being surrounded by “trippers” and what in the opening of Section 4?
(a) “Wanderers.”
(b) “Askers.”
(c) “Rollers.”
(d) “Laughers.”

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

9. The narrator exclaims in Section 18, “Vivas to those who have” what?
(a) “Succeed’d!”
(b) “Wonder’d!”
(c) “Love’d!.”
(d) “Fail’d!”

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

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

12. What question does the narrator say a child asked in Section 6?
(a) “When will summer come?”
(b) “Where are the turtles?”
(c) “Who are the birds?”
(d) “What is the grass?”

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

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

15. The narrator asserts in Section 20, “In all people I see” what?
(a) “My father.”
(b) “My sister.”
(c) “My mother.”
(d) “Myself.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator ask in Section 13, “What is it that you express in your eyes?”

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

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

4. The narrator claims in Section 15, “The married and unmarried children ride home to their” what?

5. Which word from Section 12 means “limber” or “flexible”?

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