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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What adjective does the narrator use in describing the summer morning in Section 5?
(a) “Transparent.”
(b)
(c) “Retrograde.”
(d) “Boiling.”

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

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

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

5. How is the girl described that accompanies the youngster “up the bushy hill” in Section 8?
(a) “Red-headed.”
(b) “Red-faced.”
(c) “Red-eyed.”
(d) “Red-skinned.”

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

7. How many horses is “the negro” driving in Section 13?
(a) 2.
(b) 8.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

8. What is described in Section 8 as sprawled “on the bloody floor of the bedroom”?
(a) “A handkerchief.”
(b) “The model.”
(c) “A murder victim.”
(d) “The suicide.”

9. The narrator says in Section 13 to not call what creature “unworthy because she is not something else”?
(a) The snake.
(b) The eagle.
(c) The tortoise.
(d) The crow.

10. Section 9 begins with a description of the big doors of what building standing open?
(a) “The warehouse.”
(b) “The airplane hanger.”
(c) “The fire house.”
(d) “The country barn.”

11. The narrator asserts in Section 20, “I know this orbit of mine cannot be swept by” what?
(a) “A witch’s broom.”
(b) “The moon’s rays.”
(c) “The winds of time.”
(d) “A carpenter’s compass.”

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator asserts in Section 18 that “battles are lost in the same spirit in which” what?

2. The narrator says in Section 24, “I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of” what?

3. 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?

4. The narrator exclaims in Section 18, “Vivas to those who have” what?

5. Section 17 ends with the line, “This is the common air that bathes” what?

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