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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What character is “sold at the auction-stand” in Section 15?
(a) The Asian girl.
(b) The Polish boy.
(c) The quadroon girl.
(d) The Mexican girl.

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

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

4. The narrator asserts in Section 21, “I am not the poet of goodness only, I do not decline to be the poet of” what also?
(a) “Wickedness.”
(b) “Lies.”
(c) “Destruction.”
(d) “Deceit.”

5. What color, in addition to green, is considered the “tufted crown intentional” by the narrator in Section 13?
(a) Violet.
(b) Red.
(c) Orange.
(d) Yellow.

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. What instruments does the narrator describe playing in the opening of Section 18?
(a) Drums and piano.
(b) Flutes and whistles.
(c) Cornets and drums.
(d) Tubas and bass.

13. 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) “A waste of time.”
(d) “Unnerving.”

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

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) “Stomach.”
(b) “Bones.”
(c) “Throat.”
(d) “Tongue.”

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator makes a statement equating stoutness with what animal in Section 3?

2. The narrator claims to “lean and loafe at my ease observing” what, in Section 1?

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

4. What word used in the opening of Section 15 refers to the lowest female voice or voice part, intermediate between soprano and tenor?

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

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