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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many suns does the narrator claim there are left in Section 2?
(a) Dozens.
(b) A handful.
(c) But a few.
(d) Millions.

2. The poet claims in Section 24, “Copulation is no more rank to me than” what is?
(a) “Injury.”
(b) “Thought.”
(c) “Birth.”
(d) “Death.”

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

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

5. For what does the narrator exclaim “Hurrah!” for in Section 23?
(a) “Positive science.”
(b) “Positive emotions.”
(c) “Events.”
(d) “Politics.”

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

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

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

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

10. Whitman writes in Section 1 of the poem that every what “belonging to me as good belongs to you”?
(a) “Bible.”
(b) “Atom.”
(c) “Religion.”
(d) “Element.”

11. To what does the narrator say “the other I am not must not abase itself to you” in Section 5?
(a) “My intestines.”
(b) “My soul.”
(c) “My youth.”
(d) “My scalp.”

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 cousin of the animals.”
(b) “The owner of the animals.”
(c) “The father of children.”
(d) “The mother of men.”

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says that he sees “the elementary laws never” do what, in Section 20?

2. The “lunatic” described in Section 15 “will never sleep any more as he did in the cot” where?

3. The narrator claims to wear what as he pleases “indoors or out” in Section 20?

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

5. Who does the “red girl” marry in Section 10?

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